How to Make an Infant Yarn Doll
Material: White knitting worsted.[G] A strand of coarse red embroidery cotton. Two blue beads for eyes. (See picture, [page 122].)
Directions:
1. Cut about 20 strands of yarn, each 8 inches long. Lay them together side by side.
2. Tie them together in the middle with a short piece of yarn. Fold them over in the middle where tied.
Dinah Doll and Infant
3. About ½ inch below the fold, tie in the same way as you did the tassel on doll’s slippers. (See picture No. 3 on [Plate 3].) This forms the infant’s head.
4. To make the arms, take hold of 4 strands of the yarn and tie a knot close to the neck. This forms the shoulder. About ½ inch below the shoulder knot, trim off the 4 strands. Tie the 4 strands together with a short piece of yarn to form the hand.
5. Make the other arm opposite in the same way.
6. About ¾ of an inch below the neck, tie the long strands together to form infant’s waist.
7. Sew two small blue beads in head for eyes, and take a stitch with red embroidery cotton to form the mouth.
“Baby! Baby!” cried Mary Marie as soon as Mary Frances had it finished.
“How she loves that doll!” cried Crow Shay. “She ought to have a nurse-maid to help her care for it.”
“Indeed she ought to,” declared the Yarn Baby. “I would like to tell the little Miss how to make a Dinah Doll.”
“Do tell her now,” said Fairly Flew.
So the Yarn Baby began: