You could try needle felting to attach the doll's hair. I haven't done it, but needle felting is on my list of things to experiment with soon.
I have found that my children enjoy receiving a promise to knit something for them - that way they can choose patterns and colors, and I can try the article on them for fitting while it is in progress and not have to hide it from them. They like to be included in the process. My currently most requested item is hand warmers (fingerless gloves). I can knit a pair in less than 2 days, not counting the spinning. For his birthday a couple of weeks ago my five-year-old requested blue fingerless gloves with a red spider on them, since he is transforming himself into Spiderman after having seen the movie. The fingerless gloves are his web-slingers. But alas, he has already lost them under the bed. He had seen me make hand warmers before, but the spider motif and the colors were entirely his idea - he knew exactly what he wanted. Another project I am working on is a shrug. I didn't have a pattern (I knit by the seat of the pants most often lately anyway), so I cast on and knit circularly what looked like a good cuff in 2x2 ribbing, switched to back and forth knitting and did 3 ridges of garter stitch, knit 2 stitches in every stitch and worked 3 more ridges in garter stitch, then started knitting in the gull pattern that Elizabeth Zimmerman used for the baby sweater in her Knitter's Almanac. When it is long enough I will reverse the shaping that I did at the beginning. I think it is turning out pretty well. Wendy Double Diamond New World Livestock Mark & Wendy Thompson La Mancha, Angora (goat & rabbit), Navajo-Churro Fiber Processing Vernal, Utah To stop mail temporarily mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: set nomail To restore send: set mail
