Heck of a lot less coughing this morning. Still doesn't mean my meat suit isn't finding new ways to physically annoy me tho. So maybe by next week I'll have enough tickets to actually do some of the stuff I need to do around here.
I tried once again to crochet yesterday morning to occupy my hands but it would appear complicated patterns with counting still aren't going to happen as somewhere things didn't quite work. It's the Annies Attic crochet your own Barbie sized doll and I have made one in size 10 thread and the start of one in size 20 successfully.
What ever size thread or yarn you want to use for any crochet doll as long as you use the same size thread and hook for the clothes they should fit. As much as I want to go smaller I also want to go bigger with regular yarn, I should probably get some skin tone to make sure there will be enough and I'm thinking cotton, just to see what I'd get out of it.
I did do a pattern I bought off Etsy in regular yarn and it came out like a slender 1/4 scale fashion doll, not bad. I tell you what, I learned myself quite a bit from that pattern. By the time I got thru the wonky directions the body was so twisted with boobs going this way and hips going that I was super pissed off. I made it again just incase it was me, it wasn't, and spent like a week charting the stitches out, shifting them around, and finally making something I could use out of the pattern.
If you have a general grasp on pattern drafting and stitch gage then you can squish them together in to a pattern to knit or crochet something for a doll. A lot of this still goes bacl to a design your own knitting patterns book.
Thought I had more pictures than this of Taffy in his sweater but I marked each and every stitch on the pattern. It fits him like a glove, it was more a proof of concept than anything else, but it's totally possible. And start at least 1/4 scale if not larger because it's easier to see places, like at the base of the collar, where things need some work.
And the trick to a doll pullover- lace the back halves together with a piece of yarn like a corset. Loosen it to get it on or off, pull together when on the doll, tie in a bow, tuck the ends inside the swearer.