Happy St Patrick's Day

 Happy St Patrick's Day from some of the Rose Cottage Friends.

Advent 2021 - Day Twenty One

Today it is Little Eva's turn again.

Luckily the door was down low so she could get to it easily.

She was delighted to find the third King behind the door.

The Three Kings (or Three Wise Men)

 

Advent 2021 - Day Twelve: Eva's turn.

Today little Eva has come to open the calendar.

She is not sure she is big enough too,

but Wren reassures her that if there is a problem, Rose will help.

There it is Wren points out.

It IS a bit high.

Never mind, Rose was pleased to help lift Eva up.

She opens up the door and finds a little fence inside.

The fence is put with the other one to make a little corral

Looking good.

That little pesky elf is secured with handcuffs round his feet and hands....or is he?

 

Getting Festive

 The Rose Cottage Friends are starting to feel a little festive...

Lindsey has donned a pretty knitted Christmas dress

She is joined by Everlee Rose and Sophia who are admiring some of the toys.

This shelf will gradually evolve over the next few weeks.

Peggy Sue has put on one of her favourite dresses of the season.

Hazel wants to start decorating her little tree.

Martha, Eva and Nancy have changed into Christmas clothes.

(This so called 'New UN-improved layout, means that the photos load on the opposite order to how you want them...took me several goes to get them in the right order...now I know that they load back to front it should make it a little easier....BUT WHY do they do this??)  

Happy St Patrick's Day

Well I had plans for a St Patrick's Day Party, or at least the Rose Cottage Friends did, but all I managed was the one photograph!

Hope all who celebrate it had a grand day.

Little Action

Just a few snippets this week of the very little doll action that has been happening here.

Action Man came across some clothes laid out the other day.

Trousers, shirt, jacket, boots and a cup!

He is pretty pleased with them.  They fit well, although the boots are pretty lose.  They were supposed to be genuine sixties AM boots, but they are a little big, so he might go back to the others he had borrowed.

Little Eva has come out of hibernation to inspect the garden.

She was pretty pleased with what she saw.

Loving the pink flowers.

So short and sweet, but that is all that has happened with the Rose Cottage Friends this week.

Happy Halloween

For our friends that celebrate..,. Happy Halloween 2019!

Creative 2019 - Week Seven

I last did a 'Creative 2019' back in February just before I left for NZ, having reached week six of continuous creativity.  Whilst I have been creative since, I haven't blogged about it apart from to show the dolls I made while in NZ.  So I am getting back into doing a weekly post to show what I have been doing creatively.

My friend Dawn designed a fun little pattern for Tiny Rag dolls and asked me to test knit the patter which I was absolutely delighted to do.  It is an easy to follow fun knit and you can make a little dress quite quickly which I like.  You can find the pattern on Ravelry here:  Cap Sleeved Dress for Tiny Rag Dolls

The first one I knitted was for my blue haired tiny rag doll, who is yet to have a name.

Next one for this little girl, again waiting on a name.

The third for 'Renee'.

The first three dresses together.

Gladys received the next dress.

And then there were four!

I knitted this one for Nancy, but felt she looked to washed out in it

So Barbara got it instead.

For Rose I knitted a little blue dress to go with her shoes.

All my eight tiny rag dolls I made in NZ now have closed.  Thelma and Shirley, on the left already had clothing made for them, although I will make both of them one of these dresses as well, to add to their individual wardrobes.

Because the pink didn't suit Nancy I thought I would try the dark grey and I was pleased with how that looked on her.  I think it could be dressed up a bit with a little bit of jewellery and a small shrug type cardigan.

Dawn also wrote a pattern for Hitty and AG dolls, which can be found here: Cap Sleeved Dress for Hitty and Mini AG dolls , so I tried that as well.

The first one I tried on 'Tiny Dawn' a Tiny Betsy doll as she doesn't have many clothes, and I love this on her.

I knitted one for Roshni, my Madame Alexander Travel Friend Doll.

Last night I wanted to make a dress for Anka my Polish Doll

I tried it on her, but wasn't convinced.  I think it needs to be a bit smaller across her shoulders and a bit shorter in length so will knit her another.

So I tried it on Poppy, my Heartstrings doll, and love it on her.

Lastly I knitted one for little Eva, my Baboliy doll that my friend Sharlyn gave me last year.  Love this on her!

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I've also done a little sewing to add to my Etsy Shop which can be found here: Muriel Makes  The dresses can be purchased either via my blog, or my shop.

This one is a pretty liberty style floral print and has a lined bodice.  

Perfect for the summer if we get one!

This one is another liberty style print and oh so summery.  

Each dress is £8.50 each plus postage.

I tend to only make two of each type of dress print wise, one to keep and one to sell, so the dresses aren't made en masse, and pretty much original - there won't very often be duplicates.

Quite pleased with my productive week.  Makes me realise I did actually achieve quite a lot, even when I thought I hadn't!