Over the Thanksgiving holidays, my 9yo daughter made her first crocheted doll. She kept begging me to show her how to make one, and I thought she was ready. I started her off simple, the only thing she needed to know was single crochet, how to increase, and how to decrease. No written pattern was used, I simply told her how many rows I wanted her to crochet for each body part.
Since I’ve already mastered those skills, she didn’t have to look for the information online (like I did.) She wanted to finish the doll the same day, but I broke it up into three days.
Yesterday, after she rooted the dolls hair she proudly showed off her work. She was extremely excited.
I’d been saving this yarn for a very special doll (since I thought it would make awesome hair.) But my daughter is more special than any doll I could create, and so I gifted the yarn to her. She was thrilled! Initially she found hair rooting to be challenging, but I reminded her that it only looks easy when I do it, because I’ve been rooting doll hair for years. I told her if she stuck with it, and didn’t give up… it would come easier. It did, I’m proud of her first crocheted doll.
Of course this means, that I’m adding a nice set of crochet hooks (and yarn) to her Christmas list. She’s definitely craft worthy.
Ahhhh!!!! Very nice! Like mother, like daughter!
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YAY! Looks great! She did a wonderful job!!!!
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Thanks @Jennifer, She loves crafts, so I make sure she has plenty of those on hand.
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How lovely that she is interested in crocheting as well! Looks like she’s doing much better than I did when I tried to crochet a berret once.
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@Susanne, I try to encourage whatever interests her. I guess her favorite thing to do is draw. She’s quite talented, and far exceeds what I can do. I can draw whatever I see, however she can put her ideas on paper. Since I can’t help her improve her drawing, I’m enrolling her in art classes this summer. Also, I’ve supplied her with books. I can tell she reads them, since I’ve seen improvements.
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Q – How exciting! Kudos to your daughter.
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Aw, what a great project. It’s good that she had the ‘in person’ training too 😉
@Queen Crochet, She liked it a lot, she was slightly disappointed with the doll but she still has it and as I told her with practice, anything she’d see improvements with her crocheted items. For a first project, I thought she did very well.
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