The Nativity Collection of doom
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The Nativity Collection of doom

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The Nativity Collection by Alan Dart
Knitting
SoftiesDoll
Nephew, brother and sister-in-law
as pattern
Needles & yarn
various acrylic stash
Notes

Write up of the changes we made. Mostly to the making up to make the figures look like they are meant to.

This is going to be knit as an ongoing Christmas present for Nephew (soon to be Nephews). We plan on doing 3 figures a year. First year was a bit of a cheat because one of the figures was Jesus.

Nativities are not our thing but it seems to go down pretty well with family and means we don’t have to struggle to find a present each year.

These are all being knit in acrylic and we are avoiding the cardboard because Nephew was 18 months when the first figures arrived and new nephew will be born by the second Christmas so we wanted figures you could chuck in the washing machine if you needed too and ones that didn’t have anything sharp in them.

Ruth has knitted all the pieces and I’ve been sewing them up. As is usual for Alan Dart stuff they look great but the making up instructions are useless and I basically have to make it up myself from looking at the picture.

Ruth thought about knitting it all in the round to stop so many of the pieces but I decided it was better to do it in pieces so I have more control over how it is stuffed and can make the changes I need to to make it work.

2011 -
We decided to knit just Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus this year as we started really late but we also liked the idea of the nativity growing each year. When we’ve finished we may even start on the Noah’s Ark. If we’re crazy enough by then.

The pattern knits up okay. It’s a bit fiddly and there are lots of pieces but it’s not massively difficult. It’s once you try and follow the making up instructions that I had trouble.

It wasn’t quite as hard to follow as the Thomas The Tank Engine making up instructions but when I followed the instructions my figures didn’t look anything like the ones in the pictures.

There is no way a thin strip of knitting was going to hold up the head.
And even if you did put the cardboard in the bottom of the gown, once you add feet to the front of that how does the figure stand?

Write up continued at my blog as it got massive

http://wallflowerarts.blogspot.com.au/2012/11/knitting-al...

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  • Project created: November 4, 2012
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