Quick Knit Simple Pocket Doll

 Many years ago I had the blessing of knitting a few pocket dolls for a charity near home in Vermont.   Recently I met a darling little boy who was nearing his first birthday. I wanted to make him something and the pocket doll came to mind.

The actual pattern can be found on Knitting4Peace.org.

This is the one I made: (you cannot see this really but the hair is gray in case he was missing his grandpa...)

In general these are the instructions:

Cast on 32 stitches on US 4 double pointed needles.

Knit 4 rounds in shoe color.

Change to pants color and knit 12 rounds.

Change to belt color and knit 1 round.

Change to shirt color and knit 12 rounds.

Change to face color and knit 10 rounds.

Change to hair color and knit 4 rounds  then start the decrease rounds starting with K4, K2tog around.

Every other round at this point is plain knitting then K3, K2tog; K2, K2tog, K1;  K2tog. 

The final round is a plain knitting round and you will have 12 stitches.

Now comes the part where you should go look at the real pattern for the finishing work!

The yarn I used for this doll was worsted weight cotton yarn since it needed to be able to be thrown into the washing machine regularly.

The doll, including finding the yarn, and all finishing work took about 2 hours.  No.  Less than two hours.  My plan is to make a few more and send them to Knitting4Peace as a thank you for the pattern.

Have fun with this.  K4P has many other patterns as well...something for everyone who wants to contribute