I am so happy with how Queen Lorena turned out. It was so much fun to do all the facial sculpting I had never tried before, like the eyelids and chin (yes, it's weird to knit a chin for a doll, but I swear she needed it). I definitely want to experiment more with these kinds of facial details in the future.
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| The Queen with her eyelids, eyelashes, brows, nose, mouth, and ears, but something is missing... |
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| With a chin and, hair, and powder blush to make her cheeks rosy! |
The Queen is entirely hand-knit on double-pointed needles, which is not nearly as scary as it sounds. Her eyes are the childproof "animal eyes" that anchor in the back, so I had to plan ahead on her face a little bit. Usually I wait until the very end to worry about the face, but maybe having to think about it early helped me work out the other details in my head sooner than I would have otherwise.
Her costume was also a ton of fun to make, I love making mixed media clothes for dolls!
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| Her underclothes and bodice are all knit as part of the doll body. |
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| Her skirt and collar are made from this purple batik fabric, and her brooch is crocheted wire with a bead. Here tiara is knit wire and beads. |
Here arms and legs have pipe cleaner "bones" like most of my dolls, so that they can hold a pose.
It was very important for the Queen to have exactly the right yarn for her hair, so I went down the street to my local yarn shop,
Soft Horizons Fibre,
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| Soft Horizons Fibre yarn shop (isn't it cute?) I love the house as much as the yarn! |
to find something extra special. I ended up with this gorgeous black and silver mohair, which I attached to her head with the latch hook method. It was so pretty, I just had to leave it super long!
I plan to type up Queen Lorena's pattern and have it for sale on the Etsy shop soon, so keep an eye out if you would like to knit a Queen Lorena doll of your very own!
-Baby Cat
