My granddaughter showed me a YouTube "tutorial" for designing a Barbie dress. Actually it was a disguised ad of a toy. It was a dress form with a slit in the back so the child could drape fabric and jam it in the slit. She's a rising first grader but managed to figure out her Barbie would never be able to wear the dress if she used it as it was designed.
I remembered the cuff of a child's sock often fits Barbie as a strapless dress and it hit me that I could easily knit a tube. Then it hit me that I have a new use for leftover sock yarn.
If that wasn't enough, I realized I could send her letters after I leave with little bits and bobbles she can use to decorate her "sock" Barbie dresses (buttons, sequins, ribbon, etc.) It will be a fun way for us to connected when we aren't visiting.
If anyone is interested and still reading, 20 stitches around on size 1 1/2 needles seems to fit Barbie pretty well (she has a modern one that has smaller boobs (thank God) than the one I grew up with. Her proportions seem more realistic.
So what are you excited about?
I remembered the cuff of a child's sock often fits Barbie as a strapless dress and it hit me that I could easily knit a tube. Then it hit me that I have a new use for leftover sock yarn.
If that wasn't enough, I realized I could send her letters after I leave with little bits and bobbles she can use to decorate her "sock" Barbie dresses (buttons, sequins, ribbon, etc.) It will be a fun way for us to connected when we aren't visiting.
If anyone is interested and still reading, 20 stitches around on size 1 1/2 needles seems to fit Barbie pretty well (she has a modern one that has smaller boobs (thank God) than the one I grew up with. Her proportions seem more realistic.
So what are you excited about?
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