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Like you, we love doll knitting patterns and delightful, high quality
knitted doll clothes
Hi, my name is Kjell.
Thank you for visiting the home of high quality knitted doll clothes; the doll-knitting-pattern site.
 I live in Norway not far from Oslo, the Norwegian capital. I am father of four children, and have been married to their mother, Kjerstin for 35 years now. The children are all grown up. However, whenI look at the delightful clothes that people create based on Maulfrid's doll knitting patterns, yes, this reminds me of those joyful years and four beautiful kids.
So yes, I am used to children playing with and loving their dolls. Not only with regard to our two girls, the two boys also loved their dolls quite a bit.
When I was two year old my mother gave me a doll and I named her Ann. I played with and took care of Ann for several years. My mother knitted doll clothes for Ann, and it was at great moment every time I got something.
Sometimes I wonder why mothers and fathers don't give dolls to their little sons more often to play with and take care of. I think dolls play an important role in the developing skills and attitudes.
The first thing my wife, Kjerstin, uttered when she looked through Maulfrids doll knitting pattern books with all of Maulfrids beautiful creations was; "I want to knit this beautiful things for real babies!" Yes, I can easily understand her.
So, it'swith great pleasure that I introduce to you, Maulfrid Gausel. Målfrid is a "doll clothes knitting celebrity" here in Norway. In fact she is the doll-knitting-Queen of Norway.
She has designed four extremely popular books with hundreds of delightful doll clothes knitting patterns, new editions are now reprinted in large numbers.These books are unfortunately written only in the Norwegian language. For the purpose of this site she will design quite new collections based on traditional Norwegian high quality clothes blended with a more modern style.
Maulfrid and I do a joint venture here. Maulfrids job is to continuously create new, original doll clothes knitting patterns, she is the only who can do that. My job is to make them available to you and take care of everything needed to make this happen. I promise you will get a lot of information from both Målfrid and me.
Målfrids corner
Hello and thank you for visiting us.
I am living at the beautiful south-western coast of Norway, near by the town Stavanger. My first name, Målfrid, contains one of the three special Norwegian letters. You pronounce "å" like au in Paul: Maulfrid.
The feedback on my four books has been a little bit overwhelming. I get nice calls from all over the country. It seems like my books bring joy and inspiration to many people.
Since my doll knitting pattern book number four was finished I have been thinking of what to do next. International publishers have asked me to publish my books.
However, one day Kjell called me and asked; "Målfrid, why not spread your doll clothes patterns world wide using the best way to do it; through the internet." Yes, of course, that's an exciting idea. So here I am.
Yarn and knitting, and knitted doll clothes, - have fascinated me as long as I can remember, and through many years I have created a lot of knitting doll clothes models. Designing and knitting give me such joy. My love for colors, texture and fibre is something that has been with me as long as I can remember. I have designed some hundred doll clothes models, and often people ask me how I get it all done. I think one of my keys to success is getting up early in the morning and good time management. However, ideas for new patterns come to me while I'm working on other tasks.
My inspiration comes partly from my love for delightful doll and baby clothes, and of course from my love for my grandchildren.  I am the grandmother of Malin and Karoline, Kaja, Fredrik, Tiril and Mons. Karoline and Malin often visit me bringing their dolls with them, so one day I wanted to refresh old memories and knitting skills.
(To the left; Kaja, Tiril and Fredrik.)
I found my knitting needles and yarn of thin, soft wool and began to knit doll clothes which looked the same as the doll clothes I used for my own dolls as a little girl. The results made the girls very happy! They got new knitted doll clothes for their dolls, and it was always exiting and great fun for them to see what grandma, in a magical way, was able to create with a ball of wool and her knitting needles.
Since then my life, my home, has been filled with knitted doll clothes. So I started, and little by little I have designed many different creations.
From adults who are collecting old dolls I have received many enquiries about knitting models. Many of them have been looking for classic clothes fitting these dolls. Unfortunately it has been difficult to find knitting patterns for doll clothes. I'veoften had to improvise by adapting baby clothes patterns. Sometimes I've even had to design the patterns myself. Not everyone sees this as an easy thing to do, most people need to use a pattern.
I will focus, at least in the beginning, on baby born knitting patterns for baby born doll knitting. The size of Baby born fits a lot of other dolls too.
I look forward presenting my new collection. Some of it will be in a more modern style and some of it in the style of Norwegian and Scandinavian traditions.
A lot of people in Norway love to knit doll clothes, and they put the results of their knitting on their web sites and blogs. Monai has knitted some doll clothes based on my doll knitting patterns, and she show her pictures of good work on this website.
Later on I would love to invite visitors who have knitted doll clothes using my knitting patterns to upload photos of their creations.
Best regardsMålfrid
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