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What you’ll need
2.5mm crochet hook
I used left over 100% cotton 8/8 cotton from Hobbii in the following colours
Black, Light Grey, White, pale skin tone. But any cotton of a similar thickness would be fine.
Debit Card or card of similar size to make the hair strands
Safety eyes (or you can embroider them on)
Scissors and needle as always.
Abbreviations
SC – Single Crochet (UK Double Crochet)
HDC – Half Double Crochet (UK Half treble crochet)
DC – Double Crochet (UK Treble Crochet)
BLO – Back loop only
SS – Slip Stitch
INC – Increase, 2 SC in the same stitch
DEC – join 2 stitches using the invisible decrease to prevent holes in your work.
Notes
Legs will be joined using crochet so don’t tie off the last leg and continue working. You’ll work all the way up the body to the head so the only parts you’ll need to sew on are the arms and hair.
There are no specific instructions for when to add stuffing, just do this as you go along.
Let’s Begin
Legs, make 2 but don’t fasten off the second leg.
Start with Black
1. SC 6 in a magic ring (6)
2. INC in each stitch (12)
3. SC in each stitch in BLO (12), this creates the base of the shoe
4. SC around(12)
5. 3SC, 3 DEC, 3SC (9)
6. SC around (9)
Switch to Grey
7-10. SC around (9)
Switch to skin tone
11-14. SC around (9)
Switch to Black
15. SC around (9)
We are now going to join both legs together using crochet rather than sewing. Both legs should face forward so that the feet are pointing away from you. You’ll want to start this next part on the left hand side of the right leg (see my high tech image below). If you haven’t finished here just add some SC so that you are where you need to be.
16. CH2, join to the other leg in the opposing position, 9 SC, 2SC in the CH, 9 SC around the 1st leg, 2 SC on the other side of the CH (22)
17. 5 SC, DEC, 9 SC, DEC, 4 SC (20)
18. SC around in BLO (20) (this is where you’ll attach the skirt later)
19. 4 SC, DEC, 8 SC, DEC, 4 SC (18)
20. SC around (18)
21. 3 SC, DEC, 7 SC, DEC, 4 SC (16)
22. SC around (16)
23. 6 SC, DEC, 6 SC, DEC (14)
24. 5 SC, DEC, 5 SC, DEC (12)
Switch to Skin tone
25. SC around (12)
26. INC in each stitch around (24)
27. *SC, INC* repeat around (36)
28. *5 SC, INC* repeat around (42)
29. *INC, 6 SC* repeat around (48)
30-38. SC around (48)
If you’re using safety eyes you’ll want to do this before you close up the head as we’re now going to start decreasing.
39. *6 SC, DEC* repeat around (42)
40. *5 SC, DEC* repeat around (36)
41. *4 SC, DEC* repeat around (30)
42. *3 SC, DEC* repeat around (24)
43. *2 SC, DEC* repeat around (18)
44. *1 SC, DEC* repeat around (12)
45. DEC around and sew closed making sure that it is stuffed tightly (6)
Skirt
Attach black yarn into one of the front loops only at the back of the body, continue to work in rounds.
1. SC around (22)
2. 5 SC, INC, 10 SC, INC, 5 SC (24)
3. *3 SC, INC* (30)
4-5. SC around (30)
6. *3 SC in the next stitch, SL in the next* Repeat this around. Tie off and weave in your end.
Arms (Make 2, unless you’d like a 1 armed doll)
Skin Tone
1. 6 SC in a Magic Ring
2. SC around (6)
White
3-4. SC around (6)
Black
5-12 (or as long as you’d like your arms to be). SC around (6)
Sew the arms onto the top of the body near the neck.
Collar
CH 20 then work back down the chain
8 SC, HDC, DC CH 3 SL in the same stitch as the DC, SL in the next stitch CH3 DC in the same stitch as the CH3, HDC, 8 SC. Wrap around the dolls next, SL to join and sew onto the neck and weave in your end.
Hair – Black
1. 6 SC in a MR
2. * INC* around (12)
2. *SC, INC* around (18)
3. *2 SC, INC* around (24)
4. *3 SC, INC* around (30)
5. *4 SC, INC* around (36)
6. *5 SC, INC* around (42)
7. *6 SC, INC* around (48)
8-14. SC in each stitch around (48) This should fit tightly over your dolls head. If it doesn’t, and it’s too loose, then you can undo to round 6 and then SC in each stitch around for (42)
This will now create the fringe shape to the hair (if you have decreased the amount of stitches you finished with to 42 then you will have less HDC, although none of my pattern testers needed to do this)
15. HDC, 9 DC, HDC, SL, HDC, 9 DC, HDC (25) tie off and you can leave this thread long to sew the hair piece onto the head.
Hair strands
Option 1 – Plaits
Using your black yarn and a bank card wrap the yarn around the card 30 times and trim at one end. This will give you 30 pieces of black yarn to use as the long hair to plait. Add the strands, 2 at a time, starting at the HDC at the end of the fringe piece and add 15 to each side of the head. I do this by folding 2 strands in half together, inserting the hook through the SC of the last row of the hair, then pulling the strand through at the halfway point and folding the long strands through the loop created and pull tight.
Use a comb (preferably not a brush) to comb the strands to separate the yarn (if you use a brush it can go fuzzy and twist the yarn into 1 big twist). You can then plait these and add an elastic tie or use yarn to secure the end of the plait.
Option 2 – long hair
If you want the hair to be left long you can create around 40 strands or more and starting at the end of the fringe add 2 strands into every stitch around the whole hair piece to the other side of the head. Again, you’d want to comb this to make it smooth.
Sew the hair piece on around the edge of the hair piece and weave in the yarn.
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