By making the few changes to “My Basic Little Knitted Doll-Sally” PDF pattern Buy now you can have your own “Mei” doll from “My Neighbor Totoro”!
Using brown colored yarn. Make this change in the instructions for the hair.
Bring yarn around back and start to knit in the round on the (rs).
Rnd 1: KFB of each stitch, divide evenly over three dpn’s. (10sts)
Rnd 2: *KFB, k1; five times. (15sts)
Rnd’s 3-5: knit 15sts.
Bind off as if to purl.
Make two, sew to head.
Use 2 plies of the 4 ply brown colored hair yarn for her eyebrows.
And give her slightly larger eyes by making French knots with black worsted weight yarn.
Using a dark red color yarn give her an open mouth shape, placing it at a halfway point from the bottom of the nose to the bottom of the chin. Worked over a “three stitch by three row” area.
Give her a “two stitch by one row” Duplicate Stitch cheek blush.
And tie her pig tails with some pink yarn from the dress with two over hand knots decoratively placed on each tie.
Finish it off with the free corn pattern available as a download in the Box Net widget to the right.
See more information in the “Knit Amigurumi Patterns” Page.
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