My Crochet Doll: A Fabulous Crochet Doll Pattern with Over 50 Cute Crochet Doll's Clothes & Accessories Author: Isabelle Kessdjian | Language: English | ISBN:
1446304248 | Format: PDF
My Crochet Doll: A Fabulous Crochet Doll Pattern with Over 50 Cute Crochet Doll's Clothes & Accessories Description
About the Author
Isabelle Kessedjian is a painter, sculptor, teacher and serial crocheter. Isabelle shares her talent by conducting courses for children and adults in her Paris studio. She has a hugely popular blog (http://isabellekessedjian.blogspot.com/) and her Instagram feed has over 280,000 very loyal fans.
- Paperback: 96 pages
- Publisher: David & Charles (December 19, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1446304248
- ISBN-13: 978-1446304242
- Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.2 x 0.4 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
I have made the doll and the underwear only so far.
Pros: The patters are so cute. The little photo vignettes are adorable and made me want to MAKE ALL TEH THINGS!!! The different outfits are adorable and there are plenty of opportunities for customizing the doll and the outfits to suit one's fancy. The instructions (where they exist, more on that in the CONS section) are easy to follow and totally spot on. I have rarely found a crochet pattern book that was so well edited. If it says you should have 17 sts at the end of the row, and you don't, you can be certain it's because you missed something and not because of a stupid typo somewhere. (You can probably tell that this is a pet peeve of mine.)
CONS: No gauge is given. She tells you the weight of the yarn and the hook size she used, but if you have different yarn, you're on your own figuring out which hook to use to make things fit right. This was a big deal for me, because I already have so much accumulated yarn that I am absolutely not willing to go out and buy special yarn for these projects. The assembly and finishing instructions are very brief and lacking in detail. The pictures show many different styles of hair, but the instructions for attaching hair are so sparse as to be almost useless. There are really no instructions for the face at all. "Make a stitch for the nose," or something like that was pretty much all she gave. There was a similar "Make a stitch" instruction for giving the doll an ankle, but I didn't figure that one out at all and just skipped it.
The cons may outweigh the pros for some people, especially those less experienced with crochet or with doll-making, or both.
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