Our tree and gifts, the secret Santa is a turquoise blue parcel just under the branches |
Samantha (pink welly boots)
Harriet (blue ugg boots and blue tights)
Matilda (bolero top and black shoes)
Belle (bolero top and white shoes)
Peter (converse high top tartan shoes)
Matroshka (AG doll dark pink ballerina shoes)
Harry Potter (green sweater)
Ron Weasley (maroon sweater)
Hermoine Granger (sky blue cardigan and white shoes)
Jayne (silver shoes)
In addition, my elder daughter knitted a striped scarf for her younger sister's doll Samantha. I was pleased with how well she did with making it and sewing in all those ends - the scarf even has a fringe at either end. Just such a shame that her Christmas holidays have to be spoiled by the looming GCSE examinations (our next 6 months will be dominated by them) and therefore she has little time for craft work.
Many of the shoes I had bought over a period of time and stored away to match up with outfits I will make, I had hoped to sew a few dresses to match shoes in time for Christmas, but a bigger sewing project for my younger daughter (read about it in the next post) meant I ran out of time before Christmas day.
The girls decided to bring all the dolls downstairs even though they knew that not every doll would get a gift.
The dolls wait to find out which one will receive gifts |
The Harry Potter knitwear was inspired directly by the description in 'Philospher's Stone' of Harry's first Christmas at Hogwarts - so in theory I was 'Mrs Weasley' when I knitted these items (though there is no record in the books of Molly Weasley knitting for Hermoine, I have no doubt that she must have done, especially as Hermoine eventually became her daughter-in-law). In a way, the idea of labelling each package with the name of the doll rather than my daughter's names came from this scene in the book as well. On Christmas eve morning I realised that I didn't have enough of the maroon sock wool to complete Ron's sweater. It was two old balls of 4 ply which I was knitting together to form 'double knit' thickness (actually more like Aran weight), and I knew I wouldn't find an exact match. Unlike Mrs Weasley, I couldn't conjure up more wool with a flick of a wand! A quick walk to my local wool shop resulted in a lucky find of flecked double knit maroon wool which blended in perfectly with the existing work knitted, so I completed the sweater in the early hours of Christmas morning. Whew!
Christmas packages for Ron, Harry and Hermoine |
Christmas packages for Matroshka, Harriet, Peter, Jayne, Matilda and Belle |
Samantha's new scarf and wellies |
Harry is dressed in his Mrs Weasley sweater |
L-R: Hermoine, Florence, Nicholas James, Harry and Ron |
Hermoine and Florence |
Nicholas James, Harry and Ron |
Matilda and Belle show off their new bolero tops and shoes |
1 comment:
Goodness Anna, you were a star finishing the jumper in the early hours of Christmas morning, what dedication! Lovely gifts for all the dolls all round by the looks of things. Great Secret Santa swap. I will do the first blog post tomorrow of the swap & gifts received.
Have a lovely weekend, and all the best for the New Year.
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