Crochet and Knit Clothes For Dolls

I haven't been in the mood to write any blog posts for a long time but I have been busy with my dolls. I've made new dioramas and lots of new doll clothes. I've even gotten a few new dolls. I'll put up posts about them at some point.  

My latest obsession is crocheting and knitting doll clothes. If you know how to crochet and/or knit it's lots of fun and much easier and quicker than making clothes for adults or children. I've made plenty of stuff for myself but making clothes for my dolls is fast and economical. 

Here are some photos. Hope you enjoy them. 

Chelsea and Courtney look so cute in their new dresses. It's a shame Mattel doesn't make any decent clothes for these dolls. 

Lauryce. That sweater was supposed to be for a Barbie or LIV doll but as you can see it came out way too big. I knitted it. 

Ashlynn and Gru are in love. Stuart the Minion approves. 

This dress and matching bag were also knitted. The dress was originally for a Bratz doll but fits Ever After High dolls as well. The pattern can be found here: http://www.stickatillbarbie.se/. Lots of knit patterns for dolls can be found on this website. 

Liv dolls. The blue sweater is knitted from a pattern for mini Christmas ornament sweaters that I found on the net. The other sweater can be found at the link above. I didn't use a pattern for the hat. 

This dress came out a little too big for Sasha so I'm going to put it on another doll. 

This sweater is supposed to be for a Bratz boy doll but I like it better on Nikki. 

I haven't made much for the Monster High dolls. They can wear most of the hats I made. 

The sweaters on Barbie and Raquelle I made by adjusting the Christmas ornament sweater pattern. The short sweater on the My Scene doll in the back

is from a pattern on http://www.stickatillbarbie.se/.

Tristan and Arizona are wearing a dress and matching top from a pattern I found on 

http://www.ravelry.com/. They were originally for Barbies but they came out too big so now the Moxie Teenz can wear them. 

This is J-Doll Piazza Cavalli. She's wearing a pair of shorts I crocheted. I didn't use a pattern because I couldn't find one on the internet. 

Tinkerbell and Periwinkle are my favorite new dolls. I didn't have patterns to work from for these dresses. 

China Girl desperately needed a new dress. I hate the dress she came with. It's plain and ugly and the material is terrible. I look forward to making more clothes for her. 

Hope you enjoyed my photos. Have a great summer. 

Robotica

BFC, Ink. Doll Yuko

Meet Yuko Sato by MGA Entertainment, Inc. I found her on eBay. Shes 17 inches tall. These dolls have been discontinued by the company. I don't know why. I love these dolls. I want more but right now they're being sold for outrageously inflated prices on eBay that I refuse to pay. This one was the only one that was reasonably priced. 

I took her to the beach today. She's the most beautiful doll that I own. 

She's well articulated like the Liv dolls. Those have been discontinued as well. The Moxie Teens dolls were beautiful well articulated dolls that have also been discontinued. 

Why have all the best dolls been discontinued?

I love that she looks Asian. I've bought Asian dolls from other doll lines but the Asian dolls look just like the other dolls. 

 Her hair is thick and very nice. The quality isn't bad. She has plenty of hair. 

This is the outfit she comes with. A black jacket, blouse, blue leggings, a cheap pink purse and plastic fuchsia shoes. I hate plastic shoes. 

She also came with a hard cover book.

These are my biggest dolls. Here's Yuko with my Heart 4 Heart Lauryce, left and Our Generation Sadie, right. All of them come with cheap, plain outfits and plastic shoes. Sadie is built like a linebacker and Yuko has huge gorilla paws/man hands. So she can hold things better?

Lauryce has an adorable face and the best jewelry. Yuko is beautiful, has the best book and articulation. 

Our Generation dolls have the best accessories. 

I love the BFC, Ink. dolls. Someday I'd like to get the African-American one. Well articulated dolls are my favorite dolls.These dolls aren't as well articulated as Liv dolls. 

Here are more photos of Yuko and Lauryce at the beach. We had a lot of fun. 

Heart for Heart Girls Doll - Lauryce

Today I went to Target to purchase this doll. I'd read a couple of pretty good reviews on doll blogs and the dolls are really cute, so I got one. 

I'm writing my own review because I'm disappointed with this doll. It cost $24.99 plus tax. I think that is much too expensive for this doll. A very small amount of that goes to some charity. But still, I don't know why this doll costs so much. 

She's 14 inches tall and very slim. It's a small doll with no exceptional articulation.

She comes with cute earrings, bracelets, a worthless comb that might be good for an infants hair, beautiful eyes, a sweet face, and a booklet. Her dress is cute, her shoes are plastic and it was nice of them to mercifully give the poor doll a pair of panties. 

The booklet is well made with an interesting story with color photos, something about New Orleans, Katrina, Haiti, Creole and a rabbit. Maybe most of the money goes towards making the booklets.  

The dolls look completely different than the Playmates Toys, Inc.'s stock photos so its best to see these dolls in person. 

One of the major disappointments for me was how thinly rooted her hair is. The company that makes these dolls, Playmates Toys, totally skimped on the hair. This doll will be wearing lots of hats and scarves. To me that is the worst sin for a doll company to do. 

As you can see, her hair is long. It's thin but appears to be thicker because its crimped and wavy. I love textured hair. 

I wanted the doll that comes from Ethiopia but I've never seen her at my local Target. Ever. As a matter of fact, these dolls are usually sold out at my Target. 

These are her shoes. They're actually a much lighter rose color in person. They're bland, cheap and boring. 

I got Lauryce because she's very sweet and pretty. Her hair is a beautiful color and texture. I think she's biracial. You know, the Chanel of dolls? I do like her jewelry. I might get her an outfit on Amazon (I didn't see any at Target), or I might learn how to sew and make her something cute. 

I'm not buying anymore Heart for Heart Girls dolls. Not for this kind of money. It's a great concept but I can't justify the cost. I'd rather have an 18 inch BFC, Ink doll. These dolls cost more than Our Generation dolls and you get less. 

I could also see a young girl ripping this doll to shreds and snatching her completely bald with that comb. 

Robotica