Barbie and knitting

This morning, a lady posted a note to one of the lists I am on, saying that there’s a new Barbie doll that’s all about knitting.

I needed to go see that!  )

Confession time…. when I was 10, 11 and 12, I designed and knitted clothes for my Barbie, and sold them to my classmates at school. I loved it, my friends loved it, but the teacher gave me royal blazes for sneaking my knitting into class.

I kept myself in yarn, and got myself grounded in my life as a designer by designing and knitting wonderful Barbie clothes.

I still have my Barbie and my Barbie paperdoll:

I still have my Ken doll, too. I also designed and knitted lots of sweaters, scarves and hats for my friend’s Ken’s, too. But my real fave was knitting elaborate lace gowns.

Did I keep any of ‘em? Nope.

Did I make lots of clothes for my daughter’s Barbies? Yep, but she was more of a fan of her ‘My Little Ponies’ than plastic dolls.  The dog kept eating her Barbie’s, which was  quite off putting for her.

Speaking of dogs doing silly things to Barbie, my cat came over as I was taking pics of my good old Barbie, and gave her a huge whack on the side of the head and then tried to lug her off.

Have a little respect, KittyCat! That Barbie’s an old gal now!

Besides, she worked hard all those years ago, modelling all the knitted extravaganza’s I came up with !

Oh! the link for the collector’s version of the Knitting Pretty Barbie is: Knitting Pretty  and I think that they should commission me to design some knitted clothes for her!

You know, I am willing to bet that somewhere, there’s an 11 year old girl out there that is about to launch her life as a designer with the quite wonderful retro Barbie dolls……Image Source:  Noreen Crone-Findlay copyright