When I spotted this cardi on a toy rabbit in issue 170 of Simply Knitting (first time in years that I had bought a knitting mag), I had an inkling that it might fit my doll.
I worked out recently that this doll is at least 50 years old - possibly older as I think she may have been second hand. She arrived one Christmas wearing a pink A-line dress (very 1960's) and had a blue pram, which I remember wheeling around the house for years. My mother had crocheted her a blue granny square blanket, which I've also still got.
The doll came back to England with me as I thought my daughter would be interested in playing with her. She wasn't, needless to say. When my mother died 10 years ago, I wasn't capable of doing anything except knitting and sewing clothes for this doll. I worked without patterns and - since my knitting wasn't very good in those days - the results were sweetly amateurish to say the least.
But at last my doll (and she is mine again) has a cardigan knitted properly from a pattern. I used an entire ball of Rico Baby Dream DK to make it, including the headscarf. The latter was a bit small so I've joined the ends (under her hair) with elastic.
The poor doll never had a good head of hair. Half her eyelashes have gone and she's got a gammy leg .... and this was the state of her when I got her! But I love knitting tiny things so may get more inventive. Lucky dolly.
