Wovenflame

By request, a tutorial for the doll hoodie made from a discarded sock.

This is the same tutorial I have posted on Den of Angels in September of 2010, but I realize that not all doll fans are members there.

If you have a felted sock (unfortunate mishap that sometimes happens when hand knit, or purchased, 100% wool socks go through the dryer) you can turn your misfortune to good luck by cutting the sock up to make a YoSd coat.

If you've lost a sock you can also try to felt it's solitary mate. It only takes ONE felted wool sock to make each YoSd sized coat!

Here's the diagram of how to cut up your sock.

Not shown on the diagram: the sleeve pieces are sewn into tapered tubes and then sewn by hand into the armholes. I also sewed, and then trimmed away, a wedge shaped piece over the armholes to provide a shoulder seam and a bit of shaping to the lower part of the hood. When I hemmed the hood I tapered it gradually to meet the centre front of the jacket at the point where I wanted the first fastener.

I made the toggle buttons out of beads.

With some modification and a larger, mens' work sized sock, you can also make a coat for a slim MSD sized doll.

It can be done for a doll as large as a Minifee if you have a tall enough sock. The length of the leg portion of the sock must equal the distance from the top of the doll's head to the desired hem of the back. The toe section must be long enough to allow for the length of the sleeves once the hood is cut.

It might work for dolls that are smaller than YoSd if you either used a smaller sock, or altered where you cut the sock.

Edited to add: Some experimenting has shown that it is not necessary for the sock to be felted. Commercially made socks seem to hold together just fine when cut and sewn like this.

A while ago I warped my loom with enough length for 2 scarves “and then some”. When I had the two scarves woven and cut from the loom the “and then some” sat for a month or more not really inspiring me, but not wanting to be cut free and tossed in the scraps bin either. I finally got around to just weaving off that remaining bit. Before constructing my hat I forgot to measure the finished length of the weaving, but it was definitely too short for a third scarf.

Here’s what I came up with:

Woven SAORI hat with knitted brim and crown.

I think it probably has elements in common with the “No-Sew” Saori hat, but I've never seen the directions for those so I’m not sure. I pulled the selvedge threads on both sides of the finished weaving, to gather it, and then I tied the fringes from both ends together and twisted them. From there I think my project differs from the No Sew Saori Hat.

I went along the front edge with a circular knitting needle picking up a stitch in each weft loop (but behind the outermost warp thread in case the weft pulled loose) and then I knitted a ribbed band.

My weaving wasn't wide enough to fully close at the top and I had a gap, so I also picked up stitches around the hole and decreased like you would for the top of a knitted beanie.

Of course because this hat was made from the end of a scarf warp I do have a scarf that matches it.

My first finished project of 2015.

Well, two of them anyway. I have 6 toppers cut out altogether, two in each of three colours. They are to replace the worn, faded, stained, tattered, old ones.

Out with the old, in with the new.

My Feeple M60 girl, Holly, doesn't exactly fit in with the rest of the crew. She's a giant in comparison!

But that's okay, I bought her because the larger size is so much easier to work with when miniaturizing "human" sized patterns. Just by using ultra thin needles and much finer yarn,