Craft a Knitting Basket for A Doll

       This easy doll craft is perfect for displaying in your doll's home, especially if that doll is a character doll from earlier times such as the Pioneer Era. For hundreds of years all sorts of people have knit or woven their own clothing instead of purchasing it from a store. 

       Today many modern people keep knitting baskets in their homes because they enjoy crafting their own sweaters. A basket of homespun knitting looks cozy and is comforting for those of us who love this traditional occupation.

       This knitting basket is just the right size for our 18inch dolls. You will need the following materials to make one similar to the one shown in the photos above: white cotton balls, toothpicks, wooden beads, multiple colors of yarn, white school glue, matching threads, a needle, grey paint, and a small basket, suitable for a doll to carry or display in her doll house.
       To make the miniature balls of yarn, start by wrapping any length of yarn around a ball of cotton. Wrap the yarn in all directions until you have covered the white cotton ball completely. Now clip of the yarn and tuck the end of it inside the ball. Thread a needle with a color of thread similar to the yarn and neatly sew through the ball of yarn over and over with tiny stitches. This will prevent your yarn from unraveling.
       To make the knitting needles, simply paint a pair of toothpicks grey and glue on a pair of beads to the flat end of each toothpick.

Gwen Handler creates a scarf from her flock of

Leicester Longwool sheep.

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