For the Wollyonline 43cm patterns I use Zapf® BABY Born® dolls, please note that I'm not affiliated with Zapf® in any way.

To make sure that the Wollyonline patterns in the shop fit your doll, you can compare the body measurements below.

Zapf® BABY Born® 43cm Doll Measurements

1) Total Height: 43cm
2) Chest: 27.5cm
3) Waist: 29cm
4) Hip: 32cm
5) Neck to Waist: 10cm
6) Inside Leg: 13cm
7) Arm & Shoulder Length: 16cm
8) Head Circumference: 33cm

What is a BABY Born® doll?

What is a BABY Born® (or Babyborn) doll and what does she look like? BABY Born® is a doll that is manufactured by Zapf Creations®. Below you see two of my original BABY Born® dolls.

43cm Zapf® BABY Born® Dolls

BABY Born® dolls are fully plastic and vinyl and they are 43cm tall. As you can see in the pictures there are differences. The dark doll is and older BABY Born® and the light one is a newer version.
What are the differences between the older and newer version? Let me see, both are on the table in front of me.

* The new BABY Born® has eyelashes, the old one doesn't.

* The new BABY Born® doll has eyes that close, the old one doesn't

* The new doll's head is a little smaller.

* When the old BABY Born® stands, the feet touch.

* The new BABY Born® can also be a boy, like mine, the old one cannot.

* The older BABY Born® has 4 holes in its back the newer version has a screw.

Even though there are all these differences, the dolls' measurements are the same and they will fit exactly the same clothes.

For the Wollyonline 36cm and 46cm patterns I use Zapf® Annabell® dolls, please note that I'm not affiliated with Zapf® in any way.

To make sure that the Wollyonline patterns in the shop fit your doll, you can compare the body measurements below.

Zapf® Annabell® 46cm Doll Measurements

1) Total Height: 46cm
2) Chest: 35cm
3) Waist: 38cm
4) Hip: 40cm
5) Neck to Waist: 9cm
6) Inside Leg: 16cm
7) Arm & Shoulder Length: 18cm
8) Head Circumference: 33cm

Zapf® Annabell® 36cm Doll Measurements

1) Total Height: 36cm
2) Chest: 28cm
3) Waist: 30cm
4) Hip: 31cm
5) Neck to Waist: 8cm
6) Inside Leg: 13cm
7) Arm & Shoulder Length: 16cm
8) Head Circumference: 29cm

What is an Annabell® doll?

Annabell® dolls are manufactured by Zapf Creations®, the same manufacturer that also makes the BABY Born® dolls. The dolls in the photo are my personal Annabell® dolls. You used to be able to recognize them by the 'short' fabric arms and relative long vinyl arms but the newer Chou Chou® dolls also have these arms and legs. Now you can recognize them by their faces.

46cm & 36cm Zapf® Annabell Dolls®

The large doll (46cm) is the most well known of the two. There are various versions of this doll, some make sounds, move their mouths while others don't but they all have 1 thing in common and that is the size. All 46cm Annabell® dolls are the same size, have the same measurements and can wear the same clothes.

The smaller doll is 36cm and this My First Annabell® is a smaller version of the larger doll. She also has the shorter fabric arms and legs and she can wear short sleeves.

The Annabell® doll faces change from time to time but the measurements have stayed the same over the years.

Look what I found! I'm setting up the new Wollyonline website and in my files I found another free pattern. It will fit Little BABY Born dolls 32cm and dolls of similar size. This was part of a free gift to a doll club some time late last year : )

I had forgotten all about it but here it is. It's only in Dutch, sorry, it was a Dutch doll club : )

Free Little Baby Doll Pattern

Cheers,
Christel

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Kijk eens wat ik gevonden heb! Ik ben druk bezig om de patronen over te zetten naar de nieuwe website en ineens vind ik een kant-en-klaar gratis patroon.

Dit was vorig jaar voor Stitch@Home en ik was helemaal vergeten dat ik dit gemaakt had. Toch weer een leuke verrassing.

Je kunt het hier vinden: Gratis Little Baby Doll Pattern 

Veel plezier,
Christel

Measuring Dolls for Wollyonline Doll Patterns

You will need to take all measurements shown in the picture above, or the list below. Once you have those, you can look at which patterns are suitable for your doll.

1) Total Height: head to toe in cm
2) Chest: under the armpits over the shoulder blades and across the chest in cm
3) Waist: around the waist in cm
4) Hip: around the fullest part of the hips in cm
5) Neck to Waist: from the cervical to the waistline in cm
6) Inside Leg: from the crotch to the soles in cm
7) Arm & Shoulder Length: from the side of the neck to the wrist bone in cm
8) Head Circumference: around the head right above the ears in cm

 

Which Patterns are suitable for my doll?

All Wollyonline patterns are created to fit a certain 'height' doll. This doll height is the total height: top of the head to soles of the feet. Patterns suitable for 43cm dolls are created to fit dolls of 43cm total height.

 

The correct size isn't there?

Choose a larger/smaller pattern when: the chest/waist/hip of your doll is larger or smaller. These differences will immediately result in doll clothes that are either too small or too large and are very hard to change.

Choose the pattern anyway when: all sizes are correct BUT the inside leg or arm & shoulder are shorter/longer. This is the sleeve and pants length and this is easy to change by adding or taking away seam allowance.

I'm moving the Wollyonline website and have started to move the free patterns. You can go here to download your free Wollyonline pattern:

https://wollyonline.ecwid.com/

Not all free patterns are up yet, but all will be there by the end of the weekend.

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Ik ben bezig de Wollyonline website te verplaatsen en ben begonnen met de gratis patronen. Totadt de transfer compleet is kun je de gratis patronen hier vinden:

https://wollyonline.ecwid.com/

Ze zijn er nog niet allemaal maar tegen het eind van het weekend zouden ze er allemaal moeten zijn.

Cheers,
Christel

Happy Easter!

My oh my, I have had a few very crazy days, the server that hosts the Wollyonline website was hacked and these bad people put all sorts of crazy stuff up there. This unfortunately happens sometimes, I don't understand why people do this but it is a fact of web-life.

Please do not worry, your payment information is safe, all this is handled by PayPal and has nothing to do with the website. Payments are completely separate for that exact reason.

As a result, I'm now building a completely new Wollyonline shop, on a separate server and that is why Wollyonline.com cannot be reached at this point. You can always reach me at: crhistel.wollyonline@gmail.com

This blog will also need an overhaul because the new shop cannot host all information and you are seeing that I have started that part already : )

Please email me with any questions, I'm working on getting everything up and running again.

Cheers,
Christel
christel.dekker@gmail.com

Many of you have contacted me asking when there will be new patterns? Why is is so quiet? Why do we not hear from you? In short: I have a job. That is where I have been and that is what I have been doing : )

When I came back from California my life in Houston all of a sudden seemed a bit empty. The only thing that I felt I was doing was play tennis and have lunch with my friends. It simply didn't feel right anymore. After you accomplish so many different things, it's hard to go back to a life where the main accomplishment is winning a league tennis match.

I played tennis most days for 10 years and it was enough. I needed a change. The same week I came to that conclusion, my boss from the organization where I volunteer sent me an email asking how I was doing. One chat and an interview later, I had a job.

ETO Systems Administrator, that is my new title and I officially work 20 hours a week. Right now it's a bit more because we are making some changing to the system but it will be 20 hours a week once all is set up.

And that is what I have been doing: working. After 15 years of not working, I'm now at a desk working at the computer and I lOVE IT! Once the work slows down a little I will start working on Wollyonline again but now it's all work-work I'm afraid.

Cheers,
Christel

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Veel klanten hebben me de afgelopen tijd gevraagd: Wanneer komen er weer nieuwe patronen? waarom horen we niets meer van je? Waarom is het zo stil? In het kort: Ik heb een baan. Daarom is het zo stil en dat ben ik aan het doen : )

Toen we uit Californië terugkwamen, leek mijn leven in Houston ineens een beetje saai. Ik had het gevoel dat het enige dat ik alleen tenniste en lunchte met mijn vriendinnen. Het voelde allemaal niet zo lekker. Nadat je zoveel bereikt hebt in een paar maanden, dan is het moeilijk om zomaar weer terug in een leven te stappen waar een tennis wedstrijd winnen het enige is dat je bereikt.

10 jaar lang heb ik vrijwel elke dag op de baan gestaan en het was voldoende. Ik wilde iets anders met mijn leven. Dezelfde week dat ik dat bedacht, kreeg ik een email van mijn baas bij de vrijwilligers organisatie waar ik al 7 jaar als vrijwilliger werk. Een gesprek en interview later en ik had een baan.

ETO Systeem Beheerder, dat ben ik nu en ik werk officieel 20 uur per week. Op het moment is het meer omdat ik veranderingen in het systeem aan het aanbrengen ben maar als dat allemaal klaar is, dan is het 20 uur per week.

Dus dat is wat ik aan het doen ben, werken. Na 15 jaar niet echt gewerkt te hebben zit ik nu op een kantoor achter een computer en ik vind het geweldig! Zodra de uren wat minder worden ga ik weer met de patronen aan de slag maar tot die tijd is het allemaal officieel werk ben ik bang.

Groetjes,
Christel