A few months ago, I was asked to collaborate on a photoshooting with some of my knitwear.
The theme was Dolls, those old porcelain dolls, which I could break so easily when I was a child and which my grandma used to bring to a mysterious man’s shop: the Dolls’ Doctor (a super exclusive place that some not-so-old Milanese may still remember).

For me it was a perfect theme. I love making baroque knitwear rich in details, yet with a naive twist.
In no time – just three weeks – I tried to make my best, matching my pattern projects with the stylist’s ideas.
[Note to the stylist: your endless changes of mind caused me a principle of arthritis and some doubt about keeping on doing this job - but as you see, have produced good results. ]

I’ve decided to take back those garments in order to write and publish their patterns.
Don’t know if I will be able to find the necessary (mental) peace to re-write all the instructions, as at the moment they’re randomly distributed in some hunderds of post-it notes.
Anyway, I’ll be starting with this pattern:

It’s a short jacket knitted in purple bulky merinoyarn (handspun by me), with details in rust bouclé (for this garment I used Debbie Bliss Cashmerino Astrakhan). It has only one button made of several crocheted and knitted flowers in according colors.
Matching with this jacked there’s a soft cloche hat, which apparently needs no instruction, but that was the most difficult part of the project.
Misdesigning this hat might have compromised the whole project.

Today, I was staring at this jacket and its golden label and couldn’t help wondering how could I work so quickly.
To be honest, the pattern is very easy to follow – but it was not as much easy to write it down.
I must admit that I’m slightly proud of it.
What’s more, I think that with some little adjustments it would be a wonderful garment for a little girl (mine, for instance).

See you on next post, with an update on this pattern and many more….

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