Wordless Wednesday: The Victorian Snowmen Caroling Family

Victorian Boy Snowman Caroler

This is the last family member in the Victorian Snow family made from The Annie Potter Presents The Snowbuddies from Snowville for my last swap. I will post a family photo for Wordless Wednesday next week.

You cannot tell from this picture, but with the addition of snow legs, the boy has a very different format than the previous members of the family. This was a bit more challenging to create than any of the other family members. While it made for an interesting effect, with the balance issues, I might not choose to do it in a second attempt.

I loved the newsboy style hat and may use this for other ami and doll projects.

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Victorian Girl Snowman Caroler

This is the first child in the snowman family. She also comes from The Annie Potter Presents The Snowbuddies from Snowville and I do not have a pattern number for it.

As time was running out for the swap, I was trying to decide how far I would get with this project. Did I just make Mom and Dad? Would I finish the whole family? After finishing the Mother, there seemed to be time to approach the daughter and I was glad I took on the challenge.

The directions for the little girl varied from the larger snowmen and as you will see later, the boy took an even large design variation on the theme.

While I have boxes of Christmas decorations, I am very tempted to make a set of these for myself. They are very hard to resist.


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Victorian Lady Snowman Caroler

This is the second snowman in my Victorian Caroling Family. The pattern for this family is located in Annie Potter Presents The Snowbuddies from Snowville and I do not have a pattern number for it.

I do not usually do much with fancy buttons, but for this project three of the snowmen required more than basic buttons, so I went through an assorted box I had bought a while back to see what unique options I had. I was fun to try to find something that would match.

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Victorian Snowman Caroler

I completed a snowmen family set for a swap. I was waiting until my partner received her package to write about the project. I found the pattern in Annie Potter Presents The Snowbuddies from Snowville. There is no pattern number listed on the booklet.

When I originally purchased this booklet from a vintage vendor, I only thought there was one pattern for a family of snowmen, father, mother, daughter, son, and baby as pictured on the cover. In fact, this has three patterns, which I had seen separately in other locations. It includes the Victorian couple I made for this project, which I had not seen before, and the Snowman Nativity, which I had seen offered separately.

I decided the Victorian couple was unique and chose that as my project for the swap. Since the father was the largest, I started with him.

I love the way the faces are shaped to give the snowmen faces. Many patterns provide a round ball, but this pattern actually provided shaping for the forehead, cheeks, mouth, and chin, which was unique in my experience. The caroling books are not part of the pattern. The pattern calls for paper and gluing them to the hands. I actually enlarged a free Barbie pattern, which unfortunately appears to have a dead link.

Victorian Snow Lady

This is another pattern I can attribute the starting points to Annie's Crochet Newsletter Nov-Dec 1986, Tiny Snow People. This is the wife of the Victorian Snowman I promised I would post after Christmas. She and her husband found happy new homes Christmas Eve and will be making their trek to Florida on New Year’s Eve, weather permitting.

These snowmen are a combination of the original pattern, Barbie, and Hello Kitty all wrapped up with some inspiration from some yarn I picked up at a Church sale.



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Victorian Snowman

For those of you who have been following my blog you know I found and fell in love with a snowman pattern from Annie's Crochet Newsletter Nov-Dec 1986, Tiny Snow People. I adapted the pattern and have been making a variety of these snow people for Christmas presents. I wanted an old world look for this one. I labeled it Victorian because it reminded me of the capes and tall hats, but I could be off on the historical period. It might actually be an earlier time.

The hat is actually recycled from my failed attempt to finish Ken's Christmas Caroler outfit. I will never find the hat when I start on the project for next year, so I decided to use it for this project. I had some black shimmer yarn and decided to experiment with that for the cape. I have found the dishcloth yarn makes great noses. I experimented with regular orange worsted and found the dishcloth yarn stood a bit firmer.

This one had to be wrapped quickly because he was starting to look at home on the piano and I was afraid he might not make it into the intended package.

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