A Knit Doll Giving Love
One of the most popular projects to craft for others is a doll. Many kinds of dollmaking are expensive and require intensive work – great artistic skill is used to make a porcelain doll, for example. However, a porcelain doll isn’t known to hand out love and comfort either. Soft dolls are usually the dolls of choice for organizations that give dolls to children and adults – yes, adults get dolls too.
One great pattern for a doll that can be easily knit, and probably will use yarn out of a yarn stash if you are a regular knitter, is the Easy Knit Doll. This would be a doll that would be very appropriate for organizations that give dolls to children who are in need of comfort. The recent hurricanes in the American southern states, leaving families homeless, left organizations needing dolls such as these to give to children that had lost everything – sometimes even their parents.
A doll may be a small thing, but to a child in a crisis, it can mean the world. It means just a little bit of your time and even less in the way of materials. This pattern will be a great start for your dollmaking projects as you reach out to others through crafts.
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[...] The other day I talked about the importance of dolls. We all know the value of a doll in a little girl’s life when everything else has gone wrong. But dolls aren’t just for little girls, they are for big girls too, because adults have things go wrong in their lives too. And sometimes a doll can carry a message much better than words can. [...]
By CRAFTMODO » Blog Archive » Two Gorgeous Dolls To Knit on March 9th, 2006 at 4:24 pm