Llama jacket for Maciak and Kruseling dolls

I enjoy doing miniature knitting. I've previously designed a miniature sweater/cardigan and hat for my Heather Maciak dolls Jenny and Lexie and shared the patterns on Ravelry (sweater and hat).

Recently in a Sasha doll group on Facebook, my friend Janet challenged us to a competition to knit Rosemary Shortell's Llama jacket for Sasha dolls. I commented in the group that I really wanted to scale down the pattern for my miniature dolls and didn't have the time to knit the Sasha version for the competition deadline as I was studying. During February half term in a short trip to Belgium with my family I was able knit in the car and channel tunnel journey as my cousin did the driving, so I got started on the Llama jacket (I had scaled down the pattern, using my previous spreadsheet chart for the Maciak doll sweater to get the sizing right). The jacket and hat is knitted with 2 ply yarn and 1.5mm needles.

With a short break in between courses in March, the big change to working at home and social distancing with the global pandemic raging (resulting in cancelled examinations for my younger daughter and some evenings which we have used for family movie nights), I have taken the opportunity to do some evening knitting.

Lexie looks pleased with the result (and Chloe the Kruseling has tried it on too, the sleeve cuffs need an extra row of rib for the Kruseling dolls).

Theo (wearing a Rosie Laird sweater), Louisa (wearing a Janet Myhill-Dabbs outfit) and Lexie wearing her Llama jacket and earflap hat

Lexie wearing her Llama jacket and earflap hat

Side view of Lexie in the Llama jacket and hat

Theo, Louisa and the back view of the Llama jacket

Theo, Louisa, Lexie joined by Sofia in the sweater I knitted for Lexie in 2016

Chloe the Kruseling in the Llama jacket and hat

Chloe in the Llama jacket and hat

Chloe and Sofia the Kruselings in my miniature knitting for Lexie

Lexie in the Llama outfit

Lexie in the Llama outfit

Lexie in the Llama outfit

Back view of the Llama jacket and hat, on Lexie

The pattern is available on Ravelry at https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/llama-jacket-for-jenny--lexie

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This pattern may be used and adapted for non-commercial purposes only without contacting DollMum. If you wish to use it for commercial purposes (e.g. if
you wish to sell what you make from the pattern) you must contact DollMum at dollmum@yahoo.co.uk for permission and a fee may be charged

Hats for Jenny and Lexie

I have designed a hat pattern for Jenny and Lexie, my Heather Maciak dolls.  These knitted hats are made to go with the sweater pattern I designed for the dolls after meeting Heather in Vancouver during November 2015.  They can also fit Heather's 8.5 inch Emily and Annie dolls.

The hats modeled in these photos, taken just after Christmas 2016, were knitted specially for Heather and posted to her in February 2017.  

Lexie wearing the rainbow fair-isle pattern hat

Lexie likes the multi-coloured pom pom on the top of the hat

Jenny shows off the blue and red fair-isle hearts patterned hat

Jenny likes the 3 coloured pom pom on the hat

My Jenny and Lexie modelling the hats, Christmas 2016

Heather explained to me that they arrived in the middle of a snowy period when she was recovering from a heavy cold and reading books in front of her fire (sounds cosy) and they brightened her day. Once her cold was better she was able to venture outdoors into the snow-covered garden to photograph her Jenny and Lexie wearing their sweaters, hats and some matching mittens sent to her by Susan Scribner several years ago when it last snowed in the island.

Heather's Lexie and Jenny rushed out into the freezing weather, cosily dressed in their sweaters, hats and mittens.  The following photos were sent to me by Heather Maciak.

Heather's Lexie and Jenny in the Vancouver Island snow (photo Heather Maciak)

Heather's Lexie looks like she is about to scoop up some snow for a snowman, Jenny is pleased to be wearing a warm hat (photo Heather Maciak)

"Look, no mittens!" say Heather's Lexie and Jenny as they defy the cold to show they cannot lose their mittens which have cords threaded up the sleeves of their sweaters (photo Heather Maciak)

The hat pattern is now available as a free download on Ravelry (you need a Ravelry account to access it) - as with the sweater pattern I am sharing this pattern openly using a Creative Commons Attribution Sharealike Non-commercial licence - you are welcome to knit this for your 8 inch dolls but may not sell the pattern or sell your knitting from the pattern unless you contact me for permission.  I reserve the right to make the hat to sell. 

I now plan to knit hats to match the sweaters which I made for my own Jenny and Lexie, in purple and denim blue.