Knitted royal wedding gparty

[vilakins]

Behold: the royal wedding party, including corgis! Scroll down for more photos. :-)

That's what I want to work up to; not royalty of course, but knitted or crocheted fannish characters.

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[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

Aww, that's so cute! Crocheted Amigurumi is very popular.

Star Trek Amigurumi
http://walyou.com/star-trek-amigurumi
Firefly
http://walyou.com/amigurumi-firefly-characters
Star Wars
http://starwarsblog.starwars.com/index.php/2008/03/31/star-wars-amigurumi

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Those are so cute! I especially love the Worf. I have lots of crocheted doll patterns bookmarked but I think I prefer the smoothness and variety of knitting though it's probably harder to use in a doll.

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

If you could knit in the round on very fine needles, the effect would be lovely- but far, far beyond my skill level.

I did, many,many years ago, make a few very basic crocheted dolls. It's a fun thing to do.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I just bought some very fine circulars to knit socks, and I knit in the round a lot so that's no problems. It's the design and shaping I'd have to figure out.

[miss-next.livejournal.com]

Oh, those are adorable! And they are very well done. :-)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

They are! Their faces are rather alike, but the rest is amazing.

[reapermum.livejournal.com]

I've seen her Knitivity done and that's very good, but I'm not into royal weddings.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Me neither! Actually I think you know my republicanism from previous exchanges. I just linked for the cuteness and cleverness.

[reapermum.livejournal.com]

If I were a doggy person I wouldn't mind the corgis.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I prefer my dogs bigger than that and with proper length legs for their bodies.

[bramblyhedge.livejournal.com]

Exactly, it's not natural to have tiny stumps for legs. Poor little buggers. :(

[linda-joyce.livejournal.com]

All you need is a generic pattern for a knitted doll and the right colours. I recommend Jean Greenhowe doll patterns (http://www.jeangreenhowe.com/)for the basic doll and basic clothes, all you need then is the patience of Job to sew all the tiny bits together.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I do have a generic knitted doll pattern I found; I just need to work out the designs of clothes.

Those dolls are very cute!

[muscadinegirl.livejournal.com]

That's so cute!

[jaxomsride.livejournal.com]

One of my work colleagues knits dolls for a hobby.
She is working on a cleaning lady at the moment complete with mop, bucket, terry cloths and squirty bottles of cleaner.
She gets her designs from a book she bought. She says the basic doll is easy enough. It's the details that take the time as some are really tiny.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I can imagine! Getting the details of fandom characters' outfits right would be the hard part too.

Perhaps I should look for books on the subject.

[zoefruitcake.livejournal.com]

I heard about the knitted royals on the radio, it's good to see them. I think they are good, funny but basically inaccurate as they are all smiling, which the miserable sods never do. Give me a corgi any day

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

The younger ones smile, but yeah, not a royalty fan myself.

[jhall1.livejournal.com]

:)

If you put a pair of glasses on him, Harry would be a dead ringer for Postman Pat.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Then he needs a black and white cat!

[ultrapsychobrat.livejournal.com]

Completely precious--wish I could make something like that.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

She has pattern books apparently, but I want to make my own ones up.