Main color -382 skin color (you can also use 401), white color-55 • Hook 2mm. (3mm. for hair wig) • Fiberfill • Markers • Piece of plastic in foot • Safety eyes 8mm. • Wire for body and legs • Long needle
Abbreviations:
• MR.= magic ring
• m=marker • st(s)=stitch(es) • ch=chain • sc=single crochet • dec=decrease(2sc together) • inc=increase(2sc in the next one st) • sl st=slip stitch • dc= double crochet • 1dcinc= 1 double crochet increase (2dc in the next one stitch) • (...)*6= repeat whatever is between the brackets the number of times stated • BLO=back loop only • FLO=front loop only • f/o=finish off
NOTE: Abbreviation use only in row where it stands.
BODY AND HEAD one detail BODY Main color. Hook-2mm. Crochet in rounds (spiral) We start with white yarn Put m. at the beginning of round. 1) 8sc in Mr. 2) (1inc) *8 (16) 3) (1sc, 1inc) *8 (24) 4) 24sc 5) (2sc, 1inc) *8 (32) 6) 32sc 7) (3sc, 1inc) *8 (40) 8) 40sc 9) (4sc, 1inc) *8 (48) 10-14) 48sc
Change color to main
15) work with BLO: 48sc 16-17) 48sc 18) (6sc, 1dec) *6 (42) 19) 42sc 20) (5sc, 1dec) *6 (36) 21-23) 36sc 24) (5sc, 1inc) *6 (42) 25-32) 42sc Stuff bottom part of body till the waist Prepare wire approx. 20cm. Cover it with cotton tape (as medical adhesive tape). Bend one end and put it inside the body.
Wire from the neck (from the last round of neck) should be 8cm. Cut excess wire and bend the end. Now wire should be approx. 5-6cm. HEAD We continue the body, but put m. and start counting rounds of head from here. Stuff the head after insert safety eyes, after round 32. Put m. Move it up as each round is completed till round 7. 1) Work with FLO: (1sc, 1inc) *8 (24) 2) (2sc, 1inc) *8 (32) 3) (3sc, 1inc) *8 (40) 4) (4sc, 1inc) *8 (48) Finish stuffing the body and staff the neck well We make 6 increases in each next 4 rounds 5) (7sc, 1inc) *6 (54) 6) (8sc, 1inc) *6 (60) 7) (9sc, 1inc) *6 (66) 8) (10sc, 1inc) *6 (72) Marker is at the beginning of each round 9-12) 72sc 13) 16sc, 1dec, (2sc, 1dec) *3, 11sc (this part is the middle of face), (1dec, 2sc) *3, 1dec, 17sc (64)
In the round 14 we make spaces for eyes with 1ch.
14) 26sc, 1ch, skip 1 stitch, 9sc (this part is the middle of face), 1ch, skip 1 stitch, 27sc (64) Note: we count 1ch as 1 stitch in round 14 so at the end we have 64sts. 15-17) 64sc 18) We start forehead: 18sc, 1inc, (2sc, 1inc) *3, 9sc, 1inc, (2sc, 1inc) *3, 17sc (72) 19-24) 72sc Insert safety eyes in the spaces with 1ch - round 14. 25) (10sc, 1dec) *6 (66) 26) 66sc 27) (9sc, 1dec) *6 (60) 28) 60sc 29) (8sc, 1dec) *6 (54) 30) (7sc, 1dec) *6 (48) 31) (6sc, 1dec) *6 (42) 32) (5sc, 1dec) *6 (36) Start stuffing the head 33) (4sc, 1dec) *6 (30) 34) (3sc, 1dec) *6 (24) Note: the doll has cheeks, we stuff this part well and give the cheeks a nice shape. Take some ribbon and tie it around the head (on eyes) as shown in the photo. Add filler through the head hole and push filler to the cheeks and to the forehead. You should stuff the head well enough and after you use ribbon this part on the head will not stretch during the stuffing and cheeks and forehead will have a good shape. 35) (2sc, 1dec) *6 (18) 36) (1sc, 1dec) *6 (12) Make 1slst cut the yarn leaving a long tail Note: do not close the head hole after round 36 until you finish the head: stuffing, embroidering the face, you may need this hole to add filler and during embroidering enter with needle through it.
37) (1dec) *6 (6)
f/o Close the hole by needle.
Embroider nose
With long needle and main yarn go through the head from back side, leave a tail of yarn outside. Skip 2 rounds from eyes and work with 3 stitches in the middle of face. Make nose between rounds (11-12): wrap the yarn 4 times around 3sts. Then wrap the yarn around these 4 long stitches (do not tighten the yarn).
Go back through the head, go out in the same place where we leaved the tail of yarn and tie the ends of yarn. Hide the ends. Make ears Right ear- distance from right eye is 8sts. Mark this place Leave a long end of yarn outside. Insert hook between rounds 15-16 make: 1ch, 1hdc Between rounds 14-15 make: 1dc Between rounds 13-14 make: 1dc Between rounds 12-13 make: 1hdc, 1slst
Cut the yarn and leave a long tail. Thread one end of yarn in the long needle, go through the head and go out on back side of head between stitches. Thread another end of yarn in the needle and go out in the same place, then tighten a little with ends of yarn and tie ends (with this we give shape to the cheek). Hide the ends through the head.
Left ear- distance from left eye is 8sts
Insert hook between rounds 12-13 and make: 1ch, 1hdc Between rounds 13-14 make: 1dc Between rounds 14-15 make: 1dc Between rounds 15-16 make: 1hdc, 1slst Tie ends of yarn and tighten a little in the same way as we did with right ear. If this method of making ears is difficult for you then make ears and sew them on the head. How to make Ears Leave a long tail. Make 5ch, skip 1loop from hook, 1hdc, 2dc, 1hdc and 1slst in the same loop, cut the yarn leaving a long tail for sewing.
Sew ears between rounds 12-16 at the 8sts distance from eyes. After sewing ear, the ends of yarn should be on both sides of ear. Repeat the same with tails of yarn as we do with crochet ears on head.
Embroider LIPS
Wrap pink yarn 2-3 times around 2 stitches between rounds 8-9. Enter with needle and pink yarn from back of head and go back in the same place tie ends and hide through head. We finished the head. Do not forget to close the hole of head. Make the shape of the shoulders When we finish the head, we shape the shoulders: with your fingers press together the chest and back and with long needle push the filler to shoulders.
ARMS (make 2) Crochet in rounds (spiral) Main yarn-hook 2mm. Note: you can use soft wire inside the arms. Prepare wire approx.15cm. Bend the end, cover wire with cotton tape.
1) 6sc in MR. 2) (1inc) *6 (12) 3-7) 12sc 8) (1sc, 1dec) *4 (8) 9) (3sc, 1inc) *2 (10) 10-12) 10sc Put wire inside the arms, start stuffing. Stuff as you go, stuff lightly. 13-31) 10sc
Cut excess wire.
Fold the arms flat in half and make 5sc through both sides across.
Thumb Make bobble stitch with 3dc. Leave a long tail of yarn outside, insert hook between rows 6-7 and in the same one stitch we make: 2ch, 3 unfinished dc, we have 4 stitches on hook, yarn over and pull through 4 stitches, 1ch. Cut the yarn and leave a long tail. Tie the ends of yarn and hide the tails.
Make the second arm in the same way.
Put aside the arms. LEGS (make 2) Main color-hook2mm. Crochet in rounds (spiral)
Make 8ch, turn and work through chains, skip 1ch from hook (mark this chain) 1) 6sc, 3sc in the last one chain, now we work on opposite side of chains 6sc, 3sc in the skipped chain which we marked, remove this m. (18)
Put m. in the first stitch
2) 6sc, 3inc on toe, 6sc, 3inc on heel, (24) 3) 6sc, 6inc on toe, 7sc, (1inc, 2sc, 1inc, 1sc) on heel, (32) 4) 8sc, (3inc, 2sc, 3inc) on toe, 9sc, (1inc, 4sc, 1inc, 1sc) on heel, (40) Cut from plastic a sole (slightly smaller than the main sole) 5-7) 40sc 8) 7sc, 9dec, 15sc (31) 9) 26sc, 1dec (heel), 3sc (30) 10) 3sc, 1dec, (1sc, 1dec) *5, 10sc (24) 11) 24sc Put the plastic sole inside leg You can glue it, use double sided tape. 12) 3sc, 1dec, (1sc, 1dec) *3, 10sc (20) 13) 2sc, 2dec, 2sc, 2dec, 8sc (16) 14-16) 16sc
Prepare wire approx. 27cm for legs, bend one end as shown in the photo, cover with cotton tape and put inside leg.
Start stuffing the leg and stuff as you go
17) 13sc, 1inc (middle of back), 2sc (17) 18) 17sc 19) 14sc, 1inc (middle of back), 2sc (18) 20) 18sc 21-29) 18sc Note: we make increases in the middle of back 30) 1inc, 17sc (19) 31) 19sc 32) 1inc, 18sc (20) 33-34) 20sc 35) 1sc, 1inc, 18sc (21) 36) 21sc 37) 1sc, 1inc, 19sc (22) Change color to white 38-42) 22 Cut excess wire and bend the end 43) (1sc, 1dec) *7,1sc (15) 44) (1dec) *7, 1sc (8) Cut the yarn and close the hole by needle. Make the second leg in the same way.
Sew legs on body
We make dimples on the body then sew legs.
Take long needle and hard thread. Insert needle between rows 9-10 on body. Leave a tail outside. Go out on opposite side between the same rows. Skip down 3 rows and insert needle between rows 6-7 go to opposite side between rows 6-7. Tighten the thread a little and tie ends.
We sew lags in the middle of these dimples.
Put legs on the dimples and fix by the long needle.
You can use buttons (approx. 15mm, with 2 holes) for sewing legs. Legs are movable, so you should sew them by the technology as shown in the photo
Tie the ends of thread (tightening a little).
You can decorate the white edges with lace.
Now white part looks like panties.
Sew arms on body. Fix arms by pins between rounds 31-32. Sew arms so that thumbs should be front.
HAIR Materials:
• Yarn Alpaca, mohair or any other boucle 50g=120-140m. Hook 5mm.
• You can also use -Acrylic yarn 100g=300m. Hook 3mm.
You can use any yarn you like.
We make: wig cap and cut the yarn to make hair strands, then we fix these strands on wig cap by hook.
Note: If you have no practice to work with boucle yarn It will be difficult to crochet with it wig cap, so take the same color acrylic yarn for making wig cap, then cut hair strands from boucle yarn and fix on the wig cap by hook. Cap for wig Crochet in rounds (spiral) Boucle yarn-hook 5mm. Put m. Move it up as each round is completed till round 6. 1) 8sc in MR. 2) (1inc) *8 (16) 3) (1sc, 1inc) *8 (24) 4) (3sc, 1inc) *6 (30) 5) (4sc, 1inc) *6 (36) 6) (5sc, 1inc) *6 (42) The diameter of the circle should be 8,5-9cm. 7-13) 42sc Try the wig cap onto your doll to see if it fits well. You can add one or two rounds to get the same size as shown in the photo Cut the yarn Sew cap on the head.
Cap with acrylic yarn
Hook 3mm. Crochet in rounds (spiral) Put m. Move it up as each round is completed till round 9. 1) 8sc in MR. 2) (1inc) *8 (16) 3) (1sc, 1inc) *8 (24) 4) (3sc, 1inc) *6 (30) 5) (4sc, 1inc) *6 (36) 6) (5sc, 1inc) *6 (42) 7) (6sc, 1inc) *6 (48) 8) (7sc, 1inc) *6 (54) 9) (8sc, 1inc) *6 (60) The diameter of the circle should be approx. 8,5-9cm. If your cap circle is bigger, unravel round 9 and continue crocheting 54sc till round 18. 10-18) 60sc Put the wig cap on your doll. The first stitch of the last round of cap is on the round 15 of head (middle of ear). Fix the first stich by pin on the head and fix also opposite side of cap in the same place. Count the stitches of this part on back, from pin to pin. The stitches on my cap are 22. Maybe you have a little less or more, but it is not so important.
From the first stich we make: 1hdc, 19dc, 1hdc, 1sc, 1slst (22) If your cap stitches of back part are more then start and finish with 1hdc and middle stitches with 1dc as many as you need. Leave a long tail for sewing and cut the yarn. If you want to make strands from boucle, make the last row of cap from boucle. Sew wig cap on the head with BLO.
Curly hair Hair strands Easy to make curly hair strands from boucle yarn. You will only need to cut the desired length from yarn.
Not so easy to make curly strands from acrylic yarn, it takes a long time. Take long knitting needle 3 or 4mm (you can use bamboo skewers for barbeque). Fix acrylic yarn on it and wrap around.
At the end cut the yarn and fix the tail.
Now you should iron it under wet fabric or under hot steam. Leave it aside for a few minutes to dry well.
We do strands as many as we need.
Unravel wrapping yarn and then wrap it around cardboard.
Make hair strands
For boucle yarn (for acrylic take longer): Take 35cm of cardboard and wrap around it 60 times. We fix these strands on Front part of cap, from ear to ear, only 2 or 3 rounds. 22-24cm cardboard- wrap 20 times, these strands we will fix on 2 rounds of back. 27-28cm of cardboard- wrap 60 times, these strands fix on the rest part of cap. Cut only one end of wrapping yarn. We got hair strands. Note: you can cut strands as longer as you like, but I give you size which I did.
Fix the strands on the cap with hook 2mm.
Fold one strand in half.
Insert hook in the cap stitch, pull through middle part of strand. We have one loop on the hook, then pull through 2 ends of strand. Mark centers of front and back with pins (you can use different color yarn). Start from front center of cap to back center in the last round (the edge of cap).
First round with strands we make through edge loops not exactly through stitches of round (pic.1). The second round with strands we make exactly on stitches of the round (pic.2). 1. 2.
One side (take right side, from marked stitch on front to the marker on back): We fix (1 strand in one stitch) *5. Then (skip 1 stitch and fix 1strand in next stitch) *till the marker on back.
Repeat the same on another side (left side).
Remove markers. The next rounds with strands we make: through stitches of next rounds of cap including MR, skipping 1 or 2 stitches between strands (if you want to have more hair strands, then skip 1 stitch).
Note: you can fix strands as many as you like, you can skip 3 stitches between strands. After you make 3 rounds of strands you can skip not only stitches but 1 round of cap.
I skipped 2stitches on back and also 2 rounds between strands. After 3 rounds I skipped 3 stitches and 2 rounds on all other part of back.
Collect all strands on back and tie them.
Add some short strands on front over the forehead. We finished the body of doll with hair.
