Janice Helge

Patterns available as Ravelry Downloads

Knitting: Baby Doll
This outfit was designed to fit the American Girl Caring for Baby 8” doll but also fits Vogue’s vintage Ginnette baby doll.
Knitting: Child Doll (American Girl, Sasha, etc)
Quick to knit, this cropped pullover looks super cute on an 18” doll.
Knitting: Child Doll (American Girl, Sasha, etc)
This top-down cardigan begins at the collar. The only seams are the sleeve seams. It’s quick and easy to knit. You’ll find yourself making it over and over in many colors - a rainbow of colors for a doll’s wardrobe.
Knitting: Child Doll (American Girl, Sasha, etc)
Knit from the top down with only the sleeve seams to sew, this is a quick and fun pattern for Sasha dolls.
Knitting: Child Doll (American Girl, Sasha, etc)
This cute little dress is a fun knit for the lovely Götz Little Kidz Dolls.
Knitting: Baby Doll
These slippers used a very small amount of Debbie Bliss Baby Cashmerino DK for the sample pair. A sport weight or DK weight yarn should work for them.
Crochet: Decorative - Other
This simple crochet pattern was inspired by an older cousin who lives in a retirement apartment and wanted a hanger for her kitchen hand towel. She was very specific about her wants.
Knitting: Child Doll (American Girl, Sasha, etc)
This is a simple doll dress to knit from the top down. The neckline can be a rolled edge or a picot edge. There’s a simple yoke design created with yarn overs. It finishes with a cute picot hem.
Knitting: Child Doll (American Girl, Sasha, etc)
This easy-to-knit dress was originally designed for a Kruselings 9” poseable doll. Sofia is the model. However, I’ve also included an American Girl Mini Doll 6.5” version which also fits a Madame Alexander Story Land Travel Friends 7.5” doll. And I suspect there are other dolls that it will fit also.
Knitting: Doll Clothes - Other
Minky Bear is a cute little sitting bear. He’s about 7” tall (seated); has a chest measurement of 9” and his arms are about 3.5” long. Because he’s sitting down, when I designed this pattern, I kept making the body of the cardigan under the arms shorter. If you have a standing bear with the same chest and arm measurement, you’ll want to adjust ...
Crochet: Animal Toy
This simple bear pattern is crocheted flat in single crochet stitch. It’s one piece that is then folded over and seamed. Very basic. Very simple. Easy for beginners.
Knitting: Animal Toy
This simple little garter stitch bear pattern can be knit in many sizes. Pick a yarn and a needle size then knit one - or two or three or more. The yarn can be knit doubled for a larger bear. Gauge is not critical. The needle size should create a knit fabric that will not have the stuffing peeking through the stitches. The bear in the photograp...
Knitting: Animal Toy
A great stash-buster, this cardigan is quick to knit with top-down construction. It fits a a soft-bodied bear with a chest measurement of about 16”.
Knitting: Baby Doll
This cute little quick-to-knit outfit fits the 5” baby dolls such as the Berenguer or Lots to Love dolls.
Knitting: Child Doll (American Girl, Sasha, etc)
The chill in the air this fall suggests that it’s time for a hat. But it isn’t cold enough to wear a heavy hat so this little lace topper is a perfect choice.
Knitting: Child Doll (American Girl, Sasha, etc)
This cute summer outfit includes a halter top and shorts. The halter top is knit from the bottom up and the shorts are knit top down. Both are knit flat and seamed. Included in the pattern are directions to change the halter top to a dress.
Knitting: Child Doll (American Girl, Sasha, etc)
Another easy pattern to knit for the 14” Hearts for Hearts dolls. The poncho, headband and tote bag can be made from about 1 ounce of leftover sock/fingering weight yarn.
Knitting: Child Doll (American Girl, Sasha, etc)
One shawl-collared dress pattern with three different skirt modifications to change the look of the dress. Knit top-down with sock yarn, this dress works up quickly. It has an opening in the back for ease in dressing the doll.
Knitting: Cowl
A cowl pattern designed to showcase the lovely Canon Hand Dyes Polar Opposites yarn purchased at StitchesMidwest 2017.
Knitting: Child Doll (American Girl, Sasha, etc)
Hannah’s Lace Party Dress is an easy top down knit with fingering weight yarn. The bodice is knit flat to create a back opening and a button band. Then the skirt is joined to work in the round on 16-inch circular needles. The skirt can be knit fuller and/or longer in this easy diamond lace pattern. There’s a row of eyelets for the ribbon sash a...
Knitting: Child Doll (American Girl, Sasha, etc)
Knit from the top down, this romper is a quick knit. The Baby Bee Sweet Delight yarn is DK weight and works up well in this pattern. There are three buttonholes on the back opening.
Knitting: Baby Doll
This sweet little onesie will fit 13” to 15” baby dolls such as: American Girl Bitty Baby, Gotz and Corolle. The pattern is worked in one piece from the top down with DK yarn. The legs are seamed but could be worked in the round, if desired. Their is a fitted leg version and a fuller leg version of the onesie. The pattern includes a hat, bootee...
Knitting: Child Doll (American Girl, Sasha, etc)
This pretty Hannah doll dress has a choice of two skirt patterns so the dresses that you knit can look different each time. The puff sleeve adds a pretty look to the bodice.
Knitting: Child Doll (American Girl, Sasha, etc)
This little shrug is a quick knit for the popular 6” mini dolls from American Girl and Our Generation.
Crochet: Child Doll (American Girl, Sasha, etc)
Every doll needs a new dress, right? This basic little number can be made as the pattern is written or easily modified to change the look.
Knitting: Child Doll (American Girl, Sasha, etc)
A pretty little dress for Sasha that is an easy knit. It uses about 1 ounce of a DK weight yarn. Since it is knit top-down, there are only two ends to weave in when finished. There are four buttons on the back opening so the doll can be dressed easily, too.
Knitting: Child Doll (American Girl, Sasha, etc)
Doll clothes are fun to knit! Hannah’s lace dress is an easy top down knit. The bodice is knit flat to create a back opening and a button band. Then the skirt is joined to work in the round on 16-inch circular needles. The yarn can do all the color changes on this dress leaving just two ends to finish off.
Knitting: Child Doll (American Girl, Sasha, etc)
This pattern includes a trio of mix-and-match tops and skirts. The pieces are easy to knit using less than an ounce of yarn (90-100 yards) for each top or skirt.
Knitting: Child Doll (American Girl, Sasha, etc)
Since the 18” Creatology dolls sold at my local Michael’s craft stores are sized just a tiny bit different from other 18” dolls, I designed this easy-to-knit cardigan.
Crochet: Child Doll (American Girl, Sasha, etc)
This pretty little doll dress is quick and easy to crochet. The written instructions include 3 optional border patterns including a neat two-color border.
Knitting: Child Doll (American Girl, Sasha, etc)
This cute dress fits American Girl WellieWishers 14” dolls as well as 14” Glitter Girls by Battat and Play Zone Style Girls and the NEW Gotz Little Kidz 14” dolls.
Knitting: Cowl
Quick to knit with super chunky yarn, this cowl can be completed in just a couple of hours. The Loopy Mango Merino #5 is such soft yarn that you’ll love wearing this cowl.
Knitting: Child Doll (American Girl, Sasha, etc)
Here’s a nightgown pattern that offers two sizes: Les Cheries and Hearts 4 Hearts dolls as well as the larger American Girl and Gotz Hannah dolls.
Knitting: Child Doll (American Girl, Sasha, etc)
This easy-to-knit pattern was designed for the smaller Disney brand of Animator dolls. The dolls stand about 14.5” high and have a toddler shaped body. This dress also fits the NEW Gotz Little Kidz dolls!
Knitting: Child Doll (American Girl, Sasha, etc)
This dress was designed for the 50 cm Götz Hannah dolls. It’s an easy pattern to knit from the bottom up using Cascade 220 Superwash yarn or a DK weight yarn. Only 3 buttons needed to finish the dress.
Knitting: Child Doll (American Girl, Sasha, etc)
These sweet little nightgowns for the dolls are quick to knit from the bottom up. The opening in back allows the doll to slip feet-first into the nightgown. No buttons needed!
Knitting: Animal Toy
This little cardigan was designed for the bears given away at Christmas 2015 by the Cincinnati Area Salvation Army Auxiliary Toy Shop. Although the cardigan will fit a Build-A-Bear, it was made for a bear with a larger back/chest circumference so it will be a bit larger in the back.
Crochet: Doll Clothes - Other
A cute bear sweater pattern designed for the 2015 Cincinnati Area Salvation Army Auxiliary Christmas Toy Shop. This annual event gives 18” dolls, soft stuffed bears and books to children at Christmas.
Knitting: Child Doll (American Girl, Sasha, etc)
This pretty little dress is easy to knit and looks super sweet with the cabled design in the front. The hem can easily be changed to give a different look to the dress. It’s one of those doll patterns that you’ll want knit in every color.
Knitting: Child Doll (American Girl, Sasha, etc)
Another cute dress for Hannah! This easy-to-knit dress is worked top-down using a size 5 circular needle and about 2 ounces of Cascade 220 Superwash. The gauge can be 4.5 or 5 stitches to 1 inch. It’s good to use a yarn with some wool in it so the dress can be steamed or blocked.
Knitting: Child Doll (American Girl, Sasha, etc)
This simple but pretty dress for the 50 cm Hannah doll collection inspires each knitter to create their own unique version of it. Some modifications to the skirt are detailed in the pattern.
Knitting: Child Doll (American Girl, Sasha, etc)
The popular Katie’s New Dress pattern has been re-sized for the Gotz Hannah 50 cm doll collection.
Knitting: Child Doll (American Girl, Sasha, etc)
I sure do dislike sewing buttons onto doll clothes. They can linger in an ever-growing to-do pile for quite a while.
Crochet: Child Doll (American Girl, Sasha, etc)
This little scarf was designed to match a cute crocheted hat pattern that can be found here:
Crochet: Child Doll (American Girl, Sasha, etc)
This little scarf was designed to match a cute crocheted hat pattern that can be found here:
Knitting: Child Doll (American Girl, Sasha, etc)
This pattern is a combination of three hat patterns designed by me that have been available on knittingonthenet.com and one new hat pattern. The instructions have been updated.
Knitting: Child Doll (American Girl, Sasha, etc)
These are super quick to knit and a great way to use up small amounts of heavier worsted weight yarn. A pair can be made from about 20 yards or 1 oz. of Red Heart Super Saver or Encore Worsted.
Knitting: Child Doll (American Girl, Sasha, etc)
These sweet little doll clothes were designed with quick knitting and easy finishing in mind. They require no buttons or snaps and the doll can easily slip into them feet first. Instructions are included for the following: sleeveless sundress, skirt, top and garter yoke dress.
Knitting: Child Doll (American Girl, Sasha, etc)
This cute little dress is quick and easy to knit. It’s worked flat from the bottom up and has 2 buttons in the back.
Knitting: Child Doll (American Girl, Sasha, etc)
The pieces in this wardrobe were designed for quick knitting and easy finishing. It’s a great pattern to use for donations to Stitchin’ for Kids. There are suggestions for variations to the patterns. I’d love to see photos of any modifications you make to them.
Knitting: Child Doll (American Girl, Sasha, etc)
This sweet little 18-inch doll pattern offers lots of creative variations. The top can be shorter or longer; the pants can be used with other outfits. The top can be worn with the opening in front, too.
Knitting: Child Doll (American Girl, Sasha, etc)
Quick to knit from the bottom up, this doll shrug uses less than 1 ounce of a light weight worsted yarn.
Knitting: Child Doll (American Girl, Sasha, etc)
Quick and easy to knit, this little dress will delight any doll owner. Add a string of pearls, a headband and even a fur boa to complete this outfit.
Knitting: Baby Doll
This sweet little baby outfit is knit with fingering weight yarn and 2.75 mm and 3.25 mm needles. It consists of a top-down dress with a lace skirt, a pair of undies which have a few short rows to shape the back and an easy pair of bootees.
Knitting: Child Doll (American Girl, Sasha, etc)
This little doll dress is a quick knit. The pattern has been modified to be worked top-down. It fits a 14-inch Les Cheries doll.
Knitting: Child Doll (American Girl, Sasha, etc)
This doll dress is worked top-down starting with the front edge of the collar. No seams needed to finish the dress. Just work in two ends and sew on the buttons. The lace collar is an easy repeat as is the pattern in the skirt.
Knitting: Child Doll (American Girl, Sasha, etc)
A cute, little one-piece dress knit from the bottom up with simple waist shaping will fit the 13-inch Les Cheries dolls. The overskirt is a lacey pattern that’s also quick to knit. The DK weight yarn knits up quickly on the needles: 3.25 mmm, 3.5 mm and 4.0 mm.
Knitting: Child Doll (American Girl, Sasha, etc)
This cute dress fits 13” Les Cheries dolls as well as 14” WellieWishers, Hearts for Hearts, Glitter Girls and Play Zone Style dolls.
Knitting: Child Doll (American Girl, Sasha, etc)
This lovely little lace dress is quick to knit for the dolls using DK weight yarn and size 6/4.0 mm needles. The pattern comes with instructions for both sizes. The 18-inch doll dress requires just a little over 1 ounce while the 13-inch dress needs only about 1/2 ounce.
Crochet: Child Doll (American Girl, Sasha, etc)
This pattern fits American Girl WellieWisher, Hearts for Hearts and Les Cheries dolls. Also the new Glitter Girls 14” and 14” Play Zone Style Girls and the NEW Gotz Little Kidz dolls!
Knitting: Child Doll (American Girl, Sasha, etc)
Using less than 1 oz. of DK or sport weight yarn, this cute little sweater is super quick and easy to knit for the Les Cheries and Hearts4Hearts dolls.
Knitting: Child Doll (American Girl, Sasha, etc)
Worked top-down on double-pointed needles, this poncho is a quick knit. It slips easily over the doll’s head.
Crochet: Child Doll (American Girl, Sasha, etc)
Quick to crochet, this poncho is made in two flat pieces and then seamed. Fringe can be added to the bottom or a half-double crochet row can finish the bottom edge. It uses less than one ounce of either sport or dk weight yarn.
Knitting: Child Doll (American Girl, Sasha, etc)
This cute straight skirt pattern has been revised as of January 5, 2013. If you have the old pattern from 2009, please delete it.
Knitting: Child Doll (American Girl, Sasha, etc)
Sized to fit a 13-inch Les Cheries doll, these cardigans are a quick knit in fingering weight yarn with sizes 3.25 mm and 3.5 mm needles. Knit topdown, each sweater has a different look because of easy pattern changes.
Knitting: Child Doll (American Girl, Sasha, etc)
This sweet little 18-inch doll dress is a super-quick knit. Only two ends to weave in because the dress is knit with one continuous strand of yarn. There are buttonholes in the back to make it easy for little fingers to put the dress on the doll. The yarn provides the colorwork although it would look cute in a solid color, too.
Knitting: Child Doll (American Girl, Sasha, etc)
This cute little doll sweater is knit from the top-down. The ribbed band and collar are picked up and knit after completing the body of the sweater. It’s a quick knit!
Knitting: Doll Clothes - Other
Quick and easy! This top-down sweater is an easy way to use up a couple ounces of leftover yarn.
Knitting: Child Doll (American Girl, Sasha, etc)
This is a quick knit! The skirt is knitted flat and seamed in the back. However, it would be easy to knit it in the round.
Knitting: Baby Doll
Quick and easy to knit! A wardrobe of sweaters can be made from this pattern! Choose either the pullover or cardigan - or make both. Less than 75 yards (1.2 oz.) of yarn will make one sweater.
Knitting: Baby Doll
This pattern was designed for a 15-inch Bitty Baby doll. But it fits other 14” and 15” baby dolls as well. It is knit in worsted weight yarn using size 6/4.0 mm and size 9/5.5 mm needles.
Crochet: Child Doll (American Girl, Sasha, etc)
These two pieces are quick to crochet. The sweater can be worn either way - as a cute top or as a cardigan. The skirt has a ribbon tie at the waist.
Knitting: Child Doll (American Girl, Sasha, etc)
This cute little dress is super quick and easy to knit. The front and back are knit from the bottom up following the same directions. The edging on the armholes and neck are picked up and knit with double-pointed needles.
Knitting: Baby Doll
These cute little 5” baby dolls have taken over our knitting needles!
Knitting: Child Doll (American Girl, Sasha, etc)
This doll skirt is worked from the bottom up. It can be knitted in two lengths. The pattern was designed to match the Umbrella Flounce Cardi for 18” dolls.
Knitting: Child Doll (American Girl, Sasha, etc)
This 18” doll sweater can be knit as a cardigan with shorter sleeves and a shorter body length. Or it can be knit as a jacket with longer sleeves, a longer body length and a button or two. If in doubt, make both. It looks cute both ways.
Knitting: Child Doll (American Girl, Sasha, etc)
This Shawl Cardi is a quick knit for 18-inch dolls. The cardi is worked from the top down and then stitches are picked up for the collar.
Knitting: Baby Doll
This darling little set for the 5” Berenguer doll uses less than 1 oz. of yarn. It’s a quick knit and easy to finish. The dress can be pulled over the doll’s head.
Knitting: Baby Doll
Please notice that the yellow outfit that was knitted by WormHerder has stockinette stitch pants rather than the garter stitch pants. A really cute variation on the pattern.
Knitting: Baby Doll
Another cute and easy pattern to knit for the sweet 5-inch little baby dolls.
Knitting: Child Doll (American Girl, Sasha, etc)
Worked from the top down, this is a quick cardigan to knit for a favorite 18” doll. It fits the popular 18” dolls and can be adjusted to fit the popular 15” baby dolls.
Knitting: Child Doll (American Girl, Sasha, etc)
This cute little doll shrug fits the popular 18-inch dolls such as American Girl, Gotz, Madame Alexander and Our Generation. It is quick to knit in a lighter-weight worsted yarn.
Crochet: Baby Doll
I designed this little bonnet many years ago when my daughter had a collection of Cabbage Patch dolls. Since patterns for these dolls are difficult to find, I decided to retrieve them from storage, re-work the wording so that others could follow the patterns, and share them.
Knitting: Baby Doll
There aren’t many patterns on Ravelry for the Cabbage Patch Dolls. I used to knit for my daughter’s dolls many years ago. Since I still had the patterns, I’m sharing this one with everyone. These dolls come in all sizes now but my models are the larger Cabbage Patch Kids.
Knitting: Child Doll (American Girl, Sasha, etc)
Using about 2 ounces of worsted weight yarn, this cute doll poncho and hat set is quick to knit. Two stitch versions of the poncho as well as the roll brim hat are included in this pattern.
Knitting: Child Doll (American Girl, Sasha, etc)
This sweet little dress for the American Girl doll knits up quickly. The simple lace pattern is knitted on size 9, 8, and 7 needles starting at the bottom so that the skirt has a little extra “swing”. The crochet hook is only used to slip stitch or single crochet along the neck and arm edges. (That can be omitted if you don’t crochet.)
Knitting: Child Doll (American Girl, Sasha, etc)
This cute little cardi knits up quickly. I knit my samples in Cascade 220 Superwash and Sirdar Snuggly Baby Care DK using the same size needles.
Knitting: Child Doll (American Girl, Sasha, etc)
Worked from the bottom up, the umbrella flounce pattern creates a lacy edging. The sleeves are knitted flat and sewn into the armholes.
Knitting: Child Doll (American Girl, Sasha, etc)
This little cardigan is super easy to knit. It fits the popular 18” dolls.
Knitting: Baby Doll, Child Doll (American Girl, Sasha, etc)
This pattern is a quick-to-knit top-down sweater that fits Bitty Baby. It is knit in worsted weight yarn on size 9/5.5 mm needles.
Knitting: Child Doll (American Girl, Sasha, etc)
This cute little sweater was designed for a friend who knits for Newborns in Need. She wanted a pattern for a simple tiny kimono sweater. It was a perfect fit on my dolls.
Knitting: Baby Blanket
This pattern has been a favorite since it was published on Gail Bable’s website. Since it is no longer available there, it is now in the Ravelry database.
Knitting: Poncho
Knitted from the top down, this is a quick and easy basic poncho pattern. With ribbing at the neckline, it slips easily over a child’s head.