![]() ![]() I have made them for a couple of noders here. Make use of your home printer to print the design on paper or fabric. Be sure to select a file format compatible with the printer you have (e.g. They are as fun to give as to get as fun little stress relievers. Once you find an image you like, download the file onto your computer. Type up this little poem and tie it around the doll's neck with the ribbon: I've seen some that have been knitted with intricate designs or made simply out of a sock. Now it's ready to decorate with accessories. Turn right side out, add stuffing,(don't over stuff it)and finish sewing up the opening. Place the wrong sides together and stitch around the edge leaving an opening to add the stuffing. Trace around the patterns with tailor's chalk. BO - Bind Off: Closing the stitches to finish a piece. ![]() Fold the material in half and pin the patterns so the folded edges match. Here are some of the basic terms you are likely to come across in your doll knitting patterns: CO - Cast On: Creating the initial stitches on the needle. Then I repeated this step so that I had two identical patterns.Īfter gathering the materials and preparing two paper patterns, fold the patterns in half. I made the pattern out of a brown paper bag by folding the paper in half and tracing the shape I wanted. Finished size 3 x 3 x 1½ (7.5cm x 7. While there are a number of ways to create them mine are shaped like a gingerbread man. Lovely floral pin cushion sewing pattern, the sample was made in Liberty London Tana Lawn fabrics. Cotton batting or similar material for stuffing.Will also need: poly fill for stuffing and yarn needle. Just make sure you use a needle that will give you a tight weave. For a smaller one use smaller needles and yarn. ![]() Yarn for hair, buttons for eyes, any accessories you might want to use to customize the doll Dammit Doll Make your own Dammit Doll with our easy-to-follow pattern and poem. If you want a larger doll increase your needle and yarn size.It takes about thirty minutes to make one, costs very little and are a true gift of time. This past Christmas one of the neighbor's daughter squealed with delight shouting I always wanted one of these!. He said I gave it to him some five years ago and it was one of the best payments he's ever received. I was surprised recently to see one in my doctors office still sitting on his shelf. Number Two Son and I have made well over forty of them over the years as gifts for friends, neighbors, teachers, noders and doctors. I liked it so much I borrowed it from her and made copies of it on the copy machine. The first one I saw was the one the school counselor at our elementary school running up and down the halls with. The origins of this doll is obscure like a story from traditions with an oral history they just seemed to appear in our community around 1988. The Dammit Doll is a cloth doll made from scraps of material from leftover sewing projects or sometimes if I'm in the mood to customize the doll I'll head to the nearest fabric store and check out their remnant bins. ![]()
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