How Do You Make Knitted Clothes For Dolls?
Knitting is a popular pastime. There are knitting groups that meet in coffee shops and various classes at yarn stores. If you have a doll collection, you can knit your own clothes for the dolls. Knitting doll clothes can be done by finding and using knitting instructions for children or books specifically geared to knitting for dolls. Here are a few tips to get you going. Select the doll you want to knit clothes for. Use a tape measure and measure the doll from under the arms, stretching across its lower back (width) and down from top of the shoulder to the length desired. Measure the width and length of the arms. Jot down these measurements in a spiral notebook for reference, or create a graph to follow, if preferred. Look in doll knitting books for similar measurements to find the size pattern needed (see Resources below). Buy or use the knitting needle size recommended for knitting the actual pattern. The instructions will tell you exactly how many stitches to cast on, when to knit
