Tinkerbell Izzy Doll Knitting Pattern

If you have been hit by the Izzy Doll Knitting craze.. then you will love today’s free izzy doll knitting pattern. Come and make a knitted Tinkerbell Fairy with us today and celebrate this wonderful Disney inspired knitting book – Knitting with Disney! So come on, let’s check out this Tinkerbell Knitting Pattern with freebie graphic pattern to download. A great way to sample the Disney Knitting Book before you commit to a purchase!

Fairy Izzy Doll Knitting Patterns

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About the Book – Knitting with Disney

The tinkerbell doll is designed by by Esther Braithwaite!

The Knitting with Disney book is a wonderful collaboration of expert knitters coming together under Tanis Gray’s banner with some fantastic Disney inspired knitting patterns! From the creators of this amazing book..

Featuring 28 beautiful knits pictured in gorgeous full-color photography, Knitting with Disney includes patterns for toys, apparel, and decor pulled straight from and inspired by favorite Disney movies. Take a trip to Neverland with an adorable amigurumi Tinker Bell. Celebrate the circle of life with a vibrant sweater based on The Lion King. Or make an authentic Disney costume replica of one of the Seven Dwarfs’ caps or Kuzco’s poncho.

Projects range from simple patterns to more complex projects for knitters of all skill levels and include sizing from extra small through 6XL. Filled with classic quotes and fun facts from beloved films, Knitting with Disney will have fans everywhere bundling up to rewatch their favorite movies, and knit fun projects for themselves, friends, and family.

About the Tinkerbell Knitting Pattern

Classed as an easy beginner’s pattern! An excerpt from the book – to give you a flavour of how each pattern is introduced!

The tinkerbell doll is designed by by Esther Braithwaite!

Tinker Bell is the fiercely loyal (and occasionally jealous) pint-size pixie sidekick to Peter Pan in the 1953 film adapted from J. M. Barrie’s classic play. Bold, clever, and fashionable, Tinker Bell has a lot of personality and a taste for adventure that matches Peter’s own. With the ability to
offer flight to anyone sprinkled with her pixie dust, Tink speaks in jingles that sound like a tinkling bell, a language only those from Never Land can understand. Animator Marc Davis, one of Walt’s Nine Old Men, referenced live-action models, including actress Margaret Kerry, when designing the fairy, giving Tinker Bell a bright green dress, blonde hair in a bun, an exaggerated
hourglass figure, and a trail of pixie dust that follows wherever she flies. Based on the fairy from the original play, Tinker Bell has proved to be an enduringly popular character, eventually inspiring her own series of books, TV shows, movies, and more.

Sprinkle some fairy dust on your needles! This adorable amigurumi Tinker Bell is worked in the round in one piece from the bottom up as a tube, with simple sewing added to define her arms and legs postknitting. Her skirt is added by picking up and knitting easy lace along the waist, while her bodice is duplicate stitched on after stuffing. Her wings are knit flat and attached,
and her eyes are added using basic embroidery. Make one and keep her as a sidekick like Peter Pan did, or create a whole fairy colony!

The Izzy Doll Tinkerbell Knitting Pattern

SIZE of Tinkerbell

One size

FINISHED MEASUREMENTS for your Fairy Doll

• Height: 6 in. / 15 cm
• Width: 3 in. / 7.5 cm

YARN used to make this tinkerbell doll

• Worsted weight (medium #4) yarn, shown in Plymouth Yarn Galway Worsted (100% wool; 210 yd. / 192 m per 3½ oz. / 100 g skein)
• Color A: #145 Happy Green, 1 skein
• Color B: #8 Bleach, 1 skein
• Color C: #112 Almond, 1 skein
• Color D: #202 Grasshopper, 1 skein

NEEDLES

• US 5 / 3.75 mm set of 6 double-pointed
  needles

NOTIONS

• Stitch marker
• Locking stitch marker (1)
• Tapestry needle
• Polyester stuffing (approx 1 oz. / 29 g per doll)
• US D-3 / 3.25 mm crochet hook
• Wooden dowel or single US 8 / 5 mm bamboo dpn
• 2¼ yd. / 2 m of black worsted weight yarn to embroider eyes

GAUGE

24 sts and 28 rnds = 4 in. / 10 cm over St st, unblocked, taken before stuffing doll

Gauge is not critical for a toy; just ensure the stitches are tight enough so the stuffing will not show through your finished project.

NOTES to read before making your tinkerbell doll

• Doll is worked in one piece, in the round, from the bottom up.
• Skirt is knit from stitches picked up and knit outward from the doll’s body.
• Wings are knit flat and attached to the finished doll.
• Bodice is worked in duplicate stitch after stuffing the doll.
• Simple sewing techniques are used to define the arms and legs after knitting.
• Final details for the eyes are added with embroidery.
• Written and charted instructions are provided for the entirety of main body of the doll. Note that the chart will also be used in the finishing of the entire doll for the definition of legs, arms, and neck, as well as embroidery.
• To embroider the eyes, use three horizontal bars across both legs of the indicated stitch.

Printable Knitting Pattern

You can get a free printable GRAPH pattern of this fairy izzy doll here – please enter $0 at check out (do NOT leave a tip). Please note, this is ONLY the graph pattern and NOT the full pattern. If you would like the “neat” version of the pattern that isn’t on a website, you are encourage to get a copy of the book, either online or from the library!

Tinkerbell Knitting Pattern

SHOES – begin at the bottom of the doll

Using color A, loosely CO 32 sts using the Long Tail CO method, leaving a 16 in. / 40.5 cm tail for seaming. Distribute the sts so you have 8 sts on each of 4 needles. Pm for BOR and join to work in the rnd, being careful not to twist the sts.

Rnds 1–2: Knit.
Rnd 3: K13 with color A, join color B, MB with color B, k4 with color A, MB with color B, break color B, knit with color A to end of rnd.
Rnds 4–5: Knit.
Break color A.

LEGS

Join color C.
Rnds 6–16: Knit.
Break color C.

SHORTS

Rejoin color A.
Rnds 17–20: Knit.
Break color A.

TORSO

Rejoin color C.
Rnds 21–30: Knit. At the end of Row 30, clip a locking marker to indicate the location for defining the neck and stuffing the head.

FACE

Rnds 31–38: Knit.
Break color C.

HAIR – make tinkerbell’s hair with a bun!

Join color D.
Rnds 39–42: Knit.
Rnd 43 (dec): K1, *k4, k2tog; rep from *to last st, k1—27 sts.
Rnd 44 (and all even rnds): Knit.
Rnd 45 (dec): K1, *k3, k2tog; rep from * to last st, k1—22 sts.
Rnd 47 (dec): K1, *k2, k2tog; rep from * to last st, k1—17 sts.
Rnd 49 (dec): K1, *k1, k2tog; rep from * to last st, k1—12 sts.
Rnd 51 (dec): K1, *k2tog; rep from * to last st, k1—7 sts.
Break yarn, leaving an 8 in. / 20 cm tail.

Thread the tapestry needle and weave tail through rem sts, cinch shut, and secure on WS.

Make your knitted Tinkerbell’s SKIRT

Beginning at the back of the doll, pick up the right leg of the 32 sts from the last row of color A shorts. Distribute the sts so you have 8 sts on each of 4 needles. Pm for BOR and join to work in the rnd, being careful not to twist the sts.

Join color A to the right edge of the picked-up sts with doll held upside down.
Rnd 1 (inc): *K1, kfb in next 7 sts; rep from * to end of rnd—60 sts.
Rnd 2: Knit, redistributing sts so you have 12 sts on each of 5 needles.
Rnd 3: *Kfb, k3, ssk, k2tog, k3, kfb; rep from * to end of rnd.
Rnd 4: Knit.
Rep [Rnds 3 and 4] 3 times more.
BO all sts knitwise.

Fairy WINGS (MAKE 2)

Using color B, CO 11 sts onto 1 dpn using the Long Tail CO method. Do not join
to work in the rnd.
Row 1 (WS): K5, p1, k5.
Row 2 (RS): K1, M1BL, k3, s2kp, k3, M1BL, k1
Row 3: K5, p1, k5.
Row 4: K1, M1BL, k3, s2kp, k3, M1BL, k1.
Row 5: K5, p1, k5.
Row 6: K1, M1BL, k3, s2kp, k3, M1BL, k1.
Row 7: K5, p1, k5.
Row 8 (dec): K4, s2kp, k4—9 sts.
Row 9: K4, p1, k4.
Row 10 (dec): K3, s2kp, k3—7 sts.
Row 11: K3, p1, k3.
Row 12 (dec): K2, s2kp, k2—5 sts.
Row 13: K2, p1, k2.
Row 14 (dec): K1, s2kp, k1—3 sts.
Row 15: K1, p1, k1.
Row 16 (dec): S2kp—1 st.
Break yarn and draw tail through last st to bind off.

FINISHING your Fairy Izzy Doll

Leaving CO tail at feet for sewing, weave in all other ends securely to the WS. Use the chart as a guide for the following instructions:

STUFF HEAD

Using color C, thread the tapestry needle with a length of yarn approximately 24 in. / 61 cm long. Sew a running st across the first face rnd (Rnd 31, starting just above the locking marker
placed at the end of Rnd 30), then stuff the head firmly. Cinch up the yarn to form neck and knot securely at the back of the neck. Do not cut ends as you will use these to define arms as
noted below.

STUFF BODY

Thread the tapestry needle with the remaining tail from the CO. Sew a running st across CO edge, then stuff the body loosely. Cinch up the yarn to close bottom of doll and knot securely. Do not cut ends as you will use these to define the legs.

DEFINE LEGS

Using the tail of color A remaining from the Stuff Body instruction, begin at the back middle seam and sew small vertical sts through to the front middle. Pull snugly to create leg definition as you continue to a few rows below the doll’s waist. Fasten yarn securely. Weave all remaining ends to the inside.

DEFINE ARMS

Using the tails of color C remaining from the Stuff Head instruction, sew small vertical sts from back to front to create arms that are 8 sts wide. Fasten yarn securely. Weave all remaining ends to the inside.

EMBROIDER EYES

Embroider eyes using the black worsted weight yarn and the tapestry needle, using the chart for placement. Weave all remaining ends to the inside.

EMBROIDER BODICE

Work bodice with duplicate stitch in color A, using the chart for placement. Weave all remaining ends to the inside.

ATTACH WINGS

Using color B, sew wings to center back of doll along the first 5 sts of CO wing edge. Tack into place at shoulders. Weave all remaining ends to the inside.

HAIR

Cut one 60 in. / 101.5 cm strand of color D. Wrap the yarn tightly in a single layer
around a wooden dowel or US 8 / 5 mm wooden/bamboo dpn. Wet yarn and dowel/dpn thoroughly. Place on cookie sheet and dry in 200-degree Fahrenheit / 93-degree Celsius oven for 30 minutes.

Cool. Remove curled strand from dowel. Cut into 8 equal-length pieces.

Insert the crochet hook under both legs of a knit st in the last rnd of hair. Fold 1 strand of hair in half and pull through the knitted st, keeping the loop on your crochet hook. Wrap both
ends of the strand of hair around your crochet hook and pull through your loop to secure. Attach 1 strand of yarn in every st.

Style by tying a 12 in. / 30.5 cm strand of color A around the base of the hair
strands and fasten into a bow. Trim extra length of tails once desired bow size is determined.

Your little Tinkerbell Fairy Doll is finished!

“All it takes is faith and trust. Oh, and something I forgot! Dust.” Peter Pan, Peter Pan (1953)

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