I’m not sure what possessed me to search for a human sized Coraline sweater, but about an hour ago my search led me to the official Coraline website, and there I found a knitted Coraline sweater.
I’d written about Coraline’s sweater before…
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‘d read the Coraline by Neil Gaimon years ago, and only saw the movie recently. Since that time, my daughter, and I’ve watched Coraline the movie numerous times. When watching the movie, my daughter’s crocheted amigurumi Coraline is right beside her.
Part of my fascination was the miniaturized outfits, some were obviously knitted and the signature sweater was knitted by Althea Crome.
While I highly doubt that I’ll make a knitted Coraline sweater for myself, I do know my daughter would love this sweater.
I’ve printed out my .pdf copy of the free Coraline knitted sweater, and when the weather is cool, I’ll curl up while my daughter is doing her homework, and start knitting her a Coraline sweater.
I have to say my fave part of that movie was all the rich colors!!!! Can’t wait to see some pics of this futuristic project!!!
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Opal Reply:
June 20th, 2012 at 8:02 am
Hi @jennifer, I loved all the colors too, so gorgeous, and the dolls that were created for the movie were exquisite.
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I’m looking forward to seeing this!
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Opal Reply:
June 20th, 2012 at 8:05 am
Me too @DragonLady, I looked at the pattern, and it’s fairly straightforward so I shouldn’t run into any issues. My biggest challenge will by finding something appropriate for the stars. Decisions, decisions… but I do have a few months to decide before I officially start working on this knitted sweater.
My daughter is taking soccer this year, so perhaps I’ll take this project along to knit during soccer practice.
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HEY! I dropped you an email with some pics – it was what I woke up to this morning OMG – I was freaking out!
BTW…I’m going to email you a bit later with a sneak peak of next week’s project for the Chalk Group for your daughter
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Opal Reply:
June 23rd, 2012 at 6:47 am
Thanks @Jennifer, My daughter loved the pictures too.
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Oh, what a great idea to make this sweater for your daughter! It will be adorable on her. I didn’t even consider that someone already made up a pattern for it, but I should know better by now. LOL. I hope when you get to it that you will update us on its progress!
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Opal Reply:
June 23rd, 2012 at 6:48 am
I know right @Teeni, I figured there was a pattern for this since the movie seemed to be popular. I most likely will try to stick as close to the original as possible.
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I really like that knitted blue sweater with those star patterns, it looks so cute! I wish I could knit it for myself…
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How adorable! Can’t wait to see this project in progress…
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Opal Reply:
June 23rd, 2012 at 6:53 am
Hi @erika, I’ve already started looking at yarn possibilities. The designer used “China Blue” so I’m going to see if I can find something similar. I’d really like to purchase a yarn that has silver thread already woven into the yarn, and that’s not “itchy”. As a child I loved “glittery clothes”, and I know my daughter would love that addition.
I’m still undecided about glow in the dark stars… Although I know she’d really love that!
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You know, I used to have a couple of balls of glow in the dark yarn that would be perfect to the stars on this sweater, unfortunately I gave it to a young niece who was trying to learn to crochet. If I still had it, I would send it to you!
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