Knitted Babes

This knitalong is for those interested in the knitted and stitched dolls featured in Claire Garland’s book, Knitted Babes. Please share your creations from the book and send photos of your Babes on their travels and with your friends and family. You can post as much—or as little—as you wish. Email knitalong (AT) Interweave (DOT) com to join!

Thursday, October 18, 2007

Happy Halloween to a Special Harry Fan!



To a very, very, very special fan of Harry Potter that I have heard even looks like him! Harry has bright green eyes, hardly tamed black hair, and round black glasses! Of course his #1 fan must have authentic Harry Potter hat and glow in the dark glasses for Halloween night! My son is an avid fan too and says the first book he ever read and completed was the Sorcerer's Stone. Harry is enjoyed by everyone!
May Harry bring comfort and love to you.
Special thanks to Roni for touching the lives of so many people!

Saturday, October 13, 2007

WHAT CAN ONE SAY BUT THANK YOU!!!!!!!!

Absolutely Awesome!
Just Blows My Mind Away!

To think how much smaller the world becomes and just how friendly this planet earth is when there are knitters like
GIGI and SHERYL (aren't their babes fantabulous!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and arriving suitcases in hand.
BRENDA her gorgeous FiFi has now been renamed "Brenda FiFi" by her new gal pal
CHARLOTTE can you believe that gorgeous sparklie hair, so cool & is living with her new kid
ANDREA her bathing beauty takes the focus off chemo & makes her kid think--beaches
GEORGIA P is knitting up Harry Potter for a dude who looks just like him

These adolescents and teens (boys as well as girls) are involved in the struggles of trying to survive cancer and are in hospitals for long periods of time trying to get through all that they do in order to hopefully survive.
Pre-teens and Teens don't want to appear childish but they sure do have a right to cry and scream and yell it's not fair but remember there's all that peer pressure. And yes even a big strapping 15 yr old boy wants a soft squishy doll to hug and hold without having to go in the closet to do so and a knitted dude and a knitted babe is anything but childish..................It's way cool and so far all these big kids are proud to have to hold and have to show off their knitted babe and dude.

On behalf of each of the big kids who has received or who will receive a knitted dude or knitted babe of their own to help keep away the gremlins and ghosts of scary treatments, horrible side effects and the cancer itself, I say a very big thank you one and all to those who knit up and donate a dude or babe for this program.
Thanks
Ronni
www.chemocaps.com

Monday, October 08, 2007

More Babes for the Brave

Mom and I had a great time making these Brave Babes. (blonde by Gigi, brunette by Sheryl) We also made pink nighties to go into a suitcase for each one. I love how each babe chooses it's own personality. We hope to make a couple of Brave Boys next.

p.s. yes they are holding skateboards, a babe has to play too!

New Clothes!

I haven't posted here in quite a long time but I haven't forgotten about my Babe. This August, I knit her a pretty ridiculous hat (I made the pattern up as I went) and a wrap sweater (pattern in the book, I had to mess around with it a bit though so that it would be the right size). The sweater was made with the same yarn as the dress and they look cute together.
Front

I also made her an entirely new outfit yesterday. I knit her a sleeveless shirt out of some novelty yarn and sewed (yes, sewed) her a pair of jeans (I used the pattern from the book for Flo Tilly's sweatpants). I still need to hem the waistband but I think I'll leave the bottom of the pant legs as they are.
New Clothes

Now that I know I can hand sew something without totally botching it, I might try sewing something else. I'm also thinking of making her another pair of shoes as I've lost her other pair.

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My newest Knitted Babes

Hello!
This dolls have I knitted to my daugther and a 3 years old girl.

I have knitted the dolls on 1,00 mm needler and DMC yarn.










I have send this doll to the 3 years old girl.
























Sorry about my English.
/Susanne from Sweden.