Happy New Year!

I got really far behind in November posting projects which led me to catching up and preposting projects through December and now into January. As I wish you a Happy New Year I still am anticipating a Merry Christmas. That being said I'd much rather be ahead for once that so far behind in my posts that I've completley lost any contact with what I did to make a project.

It also seemed appropriate to celebrate the New Year having finished another set of items for the 2025 donation. All the baby doll wipes are complete with this second set.

I'm always a little amazed when I pull this stuff out to pack at the end of November and beginning of December to realize how many little pieces go into making the larger donation. I remember many of the bigger projects but these little ones fall out of the project bags as I'm packing and remind me how many items are part of what I try to include in each donation.

This is part of a diaper bag crochet pattern no longer available from Crochet n'play. Over the years I've started buying some of the diaper bag/feeding kit items as some of them just are not worth the time and energy or the pain to my hands. I also no longer make the doll bassinets which I made for years as I couldn't deal with the multiple yarn skeins strain on my wrists and hands.

However, there are still a few items I continue to add to the larger baby dolls. I make these wipes because they add more value to pretend play. I make diapers because they have the potential to last longer than the plastic disposable doll ones. I also add bibs because the ones that come with the kits don't always fit the dolls I buy.

I wish all of you a happy, healthy New Year. I hope this donation continues to be blessed and our ability to help kids at Christmas continues.

16 Inch Baby Doll Bib

I make two complete diaper bag kits for the 16 Inch Baby Doll's each year.

Each doll gets 2 diapers, a bib, and a "box" of wipes.

I also generally include a Melissa and Doug Feeding Kit with the donation but I do like the hand made items to add some play value to the kits. While the feeding kit comes with a bib it is designed for a smaller doll. I know this bib fits the doll I'm sending.

The bib is made using a free pattern for a feeding kit found here.

I've changed the bib pattern a little to fit the larger doll

Notes:

I hook

To get this bib to fit the larger doll I've made the following adjustments:

Start with a chain 16

Continue pattern for 20 rows

Row 21 do row 11 neck shaping

Chain 40 stitches for ties

Reminder to myself for future years, this bib is a bit large even without adjustments for the Lots to Love 14 Inch Baby doll. Needlecrafts Shop's Sweet Cuddles 971016 leaflet is a better fit and I should pull it out to use for the smaller doll.

16 Inch Baby Doll Wipes

Sadly this pattern designer no longer lists her patterns on the Internet so I can't provide a link for the pattern. When I first bought the pattern I was making more of the diaper bag items. Over time I stuck to the things that added the most play value and resorted to buying sets like the Melissa and Doug Feeding kit for the JC 16 inch Baby Doll.

My decisions about what to make came down to fit and how long stuff would last. Most of the kits I've seen that have wipes either have an empty wipe container to pretend, wipes that dry out, or paper ones that wrip. None of this is really fun play. These appealed to me because they are something a child can hold and they won't dry out. They are washable so the value is there to use my time to make these to add to the diaper bags.