My Life Swimsuit 2

This is Adoring Doll's Swimsuit pattern found here.

I orginally bought the set with the Boy, Girl and the Wellie Wisher pattern I don't see offered currently. For my own notes I have all three stored together as they were printed together. I haven't used the other two in a bit and was a bit paniced when I couldn't find the 18 inch girl pattern as it was hiding behind the boy pattern.

Notes:

I used worsted weight 4 yarn for this pattern. I'd tried Herrschners previously and I ended up needing a much larger hook.

I used an I hook to start with and switched to a G hook after the color changes. I'd start with an H hook and finish with a G in the future as it makes it a big large on the top.

My Life Nightgown 2

This is Adoring Doll's Christmas Nightgown pattern that can be purchased here.

As you may have noticed I chose more nuetral blues as I felt it would be more useful to have a year round outfit rather than holiday specific for this item.

Notes:

I used an I hook for the dress and an H for the hat.

I tried working the surface crochet with an alternative of working in the back loops. I'm not a huge fan of either. In the future I think I'd just do a row of alternate color sc in the rows and not have the texture. I have no issue with the flat texture found in the rest of the nightgown.

The surface crochet made adding a button hole in the back more challenging so I closed with a snap.

This is one of the last three items I need for the 2025 donation. They are all complete and I'm preposting them on Veteran's Day. It feels amazing to be done. I'm making some items and then it will be time to start the 2026 donation!!!

Our Generation Swimsuit

I've been working through my swimsuit patterns this year. This is the swimsuit from Mary Maxim's Mermaid kit I made several years ago. I have a better mermaid pattern but I do like the swimsuit pattern. I did check the site to see if it had ever been added to their pattern offerings as the kit is only offered as a knit kit currently. Sadly still not available.

Notes:

I don't have the kit yarn so I chose Premier Basix DK yarn that I had previously stocked up on as a size 3 option. I haven't used this yarn often but I found it soft and it was a good match for this project. I used some Herrschners green for the border.

I made a note that with this yarn 4sc rows made for 1 inch and I'd need 16 rows to meet length requirements. I doubted myself as I was slightly under the mark and added a row. In the future I would follow my directions as written as the crotch section is a little longer than needed from not following the directions.

CC is the main color not the contrasting which is what my brain oddly keeps translating.

The Front section directions form the crotch section. This is not clearly stated so I write it here to remind myself.

I have not decided if I will repeat this pattern or go with the Adoring Doll Swimsuit for the last My Life swimsuit I need for the 2025 donation. I need to finish the two nightgowns I've started and make the last swimsuit for 2025 and that will wrap up the 2025 donation. As I'm preposting this in early November, I have one more day to sort and post pictures of the last donation box.

If all goes well we have help this year with delivery for early December.