Christkind (aka Christ-child) is the gift-giver on Christmas Eve is several European countries and is frequently depicted as barefooted young child with curling hair and a long tunic. You don’t need many colors to create this doll and only scraps of yarn (or embroidery floss) to embroider his face. At 14.5 inches tall, he does need a good bit o...

Capricci is a floppy doll made primarily of ruffled discs with loopy hair and a hat that looks like an overturned flower pot; you can use any colors of worsted weight yarn for him so he’s a great stashbuster. Using the hooks mentioned in the pattern and worsted weight yarn, he’s about 22 inches tall from the top of his hat to the bottom of his ...