Friday, November 19, 2010

Victorian Pocket Spirits

The works-in-progress from a couple weeks ago are now clad in their Victorian finery.  The pattern for all of these delightful little dresses is an Annie Potter Presents leaflet entitled "Victorian Darlings."   To fit the Pocket Spirits I used size 20 crochet cotton or size 8 perle cotton and a size 7 crochet hook for the dresses.  The sweet little boots were crocheted just as the pattern called for, with size 10 crochet cotton.  This pattern book is out of print, but if you do a Google search, you may come up with some used copies that are available.


Abby and Meghan

Felicia

Catherine and Bearable

Rebekah

Felicia in her nightgown

I did work out a couple of patterns specifically for the Pocket Spirits.  The nightgown above is one of them; you can download the pattern here:


Felicia in camisole and pantaloons

And also a pattern for a Victorian camisole and pantaloons.  I'm sure these patterns look familiar to you, but the instructions are now specifically for the Pocket Spirit size dolls.  


These dresses also fit the 16cm BJD dolls, such as Lati Yellow and Fairyland Puki Fee.  For the long sleeved dresses you might want to crochet the sleeves a bit longer than the pattern calls for.  

Rebekah says "Have a lovely day!"


24 comments:

  1. Aw Ellen, you are awfully sweet :-)

    Beth

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  2. Oh, how precious! What beautiful work you do!

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  3. Oh my, those dollys are gorgeous! How much for the entire set of dolls? love them all!

    hugz
    Pam

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  4. So wonderfull Beth,it really is:-)

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  5. They are so cute and darling! You really make lovely dolls!

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  6. so cute they are thanks alot for all this your doll

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  7. Thank-you all for your good words :-)

    Beth

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  8. They are all just too cute for words, Beth! I love the little camisole set. It's so dainty.

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  9. Do you ever sell a doll? I can't get the head right.........PLEASE? GeeGee

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  10. Hi GeeGee,

    Why don't you email me at dollmaker46203[at]gmail.com and we can work out the problem you are having with the head. I'd love to empower you to make your own doll; then you can make them to be anything you want, which is really a lot of fun!

    Beth

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  11. OH my goodness but they are all FANTASTIC!!! The dolls themselves, their little faces, those detailed outfits- just Wonderful!!!
    And I so LOVE the photo of you wearing your hair in braids and your doll as well- so Cute!!!

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  12. April, thank-you so much for the good words :-)

    Beth

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  13. They are so cute and darling!
    I love them!! ^_^

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  14. Hi Beth, I too have a question about one of your stitches. I am working your Victorian nightgown and the stitch is "Two DC Cluster", after you "pull thread through two loops on hook, yo," (do you insert the hook back into the same chain and work another dc) to get the 3 on a hook? Sounds silly I really want to work it so I get work as nice as yours.
    Thanks
    Connie
    Decatur, IL

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  15. Hi Connie,

    You are exactly right! I left that part out :-( Thank you for the catch, and I will update the pattern.

    Beth

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  16. Hi Beth!
    I LOVE your blog and the dolls, clothes and pets patterns.I hope to live as long as your beautiful grandmother--making and playing with dolls!
    The Annie Potter books Little Darlings and Victorian Little Darlings are available on Ebay. I found them this morning.The seller knows Annie Potter & dug up some of the Victorian ones-I think there are 8 or 9 copies left.(Not connected in any way to the seller --just a crochet pattern collector!)
    Cordially, Colleen

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  17. Colleen, thank you so much for your good words, and I'm glad to hear that these delightful leaflets are still out there and available, if you look :-)

    Beth

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  18. Hi ,thanks Collen for letting us know about the seller on Ebay, i would love to get this leaflet. Beth,i love the colors that you have choosen. what brand of no 8 pearl cotton do you use? i just love the colors. thanks ~Anne~

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  19. Hi Anne,

    I like to use DMC perle cotton; however, I found a site that sells a perle cotton with the same DMC color numbers, but I don't think it is DMC. It is less expensive, and it works up the same as DMC. Here is the link to the site:

    http://www.threadart.com/shop/category.aspx?catid=283

    Beth

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  20. Hi Beth, thanks! i checked out the siteand the no 8 pearl thread is on sale right now for .89 cents. even with international shipping it's still a good price. the only other pearl cotton that i found was at Mary Maxim.it's Cebelia by DMC ($4.79) and i still would have to pay shipping .threadart is probably my best option. thanks again! ~Anne~

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  21. no me canso de ver estos trabajos exquisitos. Me han impactado profundamente. la creatividad, la delicadeza con que estan realizados es extremadamente fabulosa. realmente felicitaciones Beth, son perfectos, excepcionales, y todos los dìas vengo por acá a mirar y traducir tus escritos. gracias por tantas maravillas!!!!!!!! desde argentina, yoli para tí

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