Knecht Ruprecht Waldorf Dolls {giveaway!}

Happy Martinmas everyone!! We had a beautiful lantern walk that I hope to share with all of you soon but I first wanted to share a very exciting giveaway!

  My dear friend Marie of Knecht Ruprecht Waldorf Dolls has released a beautiful new Waldorf doll pattern and kit, just in time for holiday gift giving. I have one and can not even begin to describe just how beautiful the materials are in person. I can't wait to make it for our little miracle baby.

In Marie's words:



Often a doll-friend accompanies a child through the whole of childhood as loyal companion and thus it should be carefully chosen. A snuggle dolly is a good choice for a first doll. It has a soft, cuddly body and a pixie hat like the Knecht Ruprecht Snuggle Doll and it can easily be taken along everywhere. It can be wrapped in its own cuddly body fabric and thus be in bed, and it takes on trusted, comforting scents to have nearby where ever one goes.
It is particularly good when this important companion is personally made. This guide book provides a way to make this possible.


Step by step instructions including patterns for the original Knecht Ruprecht Snuggle Doll A first doll with a soft cuddly body and a pixie hat
Richly illustrated.
Step by step instructions.
50 pictures and detailed photos.
Suitable for beginners.
Instant Download Tutorial



This PDF EBook includes a 25 page detailed tutorial for sewing your own Babies First Snuggle Doll. It is designed elaborately and contains more than 50 detaild pictures to follow step by step. It also contains information about the meaning of dollplay in Waldorf Education, about Basic Sewing Techniques for dollmaking, about resources for doll making materials and an illustrated guide to washing cloth dolls.



When I make the Knecht Ruprecht Snuggle Dolls in my own workshop, I use GOTS (Global Organic Textile Standard) certified organic velour fabric made from pure cotton and Swiss cotton doll tricot. I fill the head and body base with pure wool fleece. Often it can be hard to come by the kind of high quality, tested organic fabrics one would like to use for such a special task and this can be frustrating. For this reason I have put together DIY Fabric and Material packs of the finest quality materials to match the requirements of the Doll Making Guide for the Knecht Ruprecht Snuggle Doll.

These packs come in the three colours; moss green, sea blue or rose. A piece of GOTS certified organic cotton velour, a piece of GOTS certified cotton doll tricot for the inner head/face and a piece for the outer head, with some pure wool fleece for the filling of the head and body bit. In the packs I have also included the yarn for binding the doll and the cheek blush for the magic last touches. They are packed beautifully in a hand stamped paper bag decorated with a matching picture of a Knecht Ruprecht Snuggle Doll made out of the materials you will find in the pack.



Marie has kindly offered a babies first doll kit featuring her snuggle doll and tutorial to one of you!

For a chance to win, simply leave a comment on this post! If you would like an additional chance to win:
-post this giveaway to Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, or your blog
-“like” Knecht Ruprecht Waldorf Dolls on facebook
and please make sure to come back and leave me another comment letting me know you did so!

Please make sure you comment via intense debate and not via blogger on your phone. If you comment using blogger it gets deleted and cancels out all of the other comments in the process. Sorry for the inconvenience. Thanks for understanding!

Comments will close on Tuesday November 17th and I will announce the winners within this post that night.


Comments closed! The winner is:

Mimi@Sweet Sassafras who said -  Oh isn't this sweet! The perfect size for little hands, too.

 

Congrats! Please email me at farmergopi@yahoo.com

Good luck everyone. Thank you Marie!

Knecht Ruprecht Waldorf Dolls {giveaway!}

Keep Calm Craft On {crafting on}

The act of creating, in one form or another, preserves my sanity amongst the chaos of life. This explains why I always have more than one project going at a time as well as why my housework tends to fall behind. I enjoy seeing what others are working on and keeping calm with, too. What are you creating? What is keeping you going? Snap a picture or two and share it with the rest of us by leaving your link below.


I wanted to share a little something fun I knit up recently for yet another swap. This one was a Scandinavian Christmas swap. I was initially thinking of something Santa Lucia inspired but there was an overwhelming desire for hedgehogs in the swap so I went with that. I knit five of these cute little hedgies (a new design by Linda Dawkins at Natural Suburbia) and then sewed up some wool toadstools to go with them. Every hedgehog needs a toadstool, right?

I am addicted to these swaps, I know. I swear this is my last one until after the baby is here though so I can concentrate on all those cute little baby knits. Speaking of, I started on the baby's first blanket. It is a pattern I have been admiring for a long time. When it was first released I just knew that I wanted to knit it for a future baby. I just didn't realize it would be years before I would get the chance to cast on. Very much worth the wait, though (the blanket, too). The pattern is Dogwood by Tin Can Knits. It reminds me of the beautiful dogwood trees we had at Portland Waldorf School as well as the Legend of the Dogwood. Two things I will be happy to think of as I soak in all the sweet baby goodness that will be wrapped within it.

What are you working on? Happy creating!

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Keep Calm Craft On {crafting on}