American Girl & Only Hearts Club Dolls
I was in Tuesday Morning last week and found these cute little Only Hearts Club Dolls. My granddaughters love dolls and love dressing dolls. These little darlings are a great alternative to Barbie. They have the sweetest faces too. I found clothes for them online but they were way too expensive, so I'm going to try to knit them wardrobes by next Christmas. This little coat is my first attempt. I didn't write up the pattern, but if these start going well, I will have patterns to share.
For Christmas last year, I bought my granddaughters inexpensive 18" dolls that are similar to the American Girl dolls. I got the dolls at Michael's and also bought all the different clothes Michael's had. With 40% off coupons, I was able to get them a lot of clothes. But I still wanted to knit them some clothes to use up small amounts of yarn. When my friends found out what I was doing, they also contributed a lot of small balls of stash. It was a lot of fun and here's a photo of the clothes. But my granddaughter's liked the "store-bought" clothes better. That's ok, they will appreciate them later.
Most of the patterns for this doll were found on the internet by Googling American Girl Knitting Patterns. A couple I made up myself using Sweaterwizard - a very easty-to-use sweater designing software.