Elsy

This is Elsy.  I just can't have one boy elf without making a girl to go with him and the name Elsy just seemed to work for her!  I used the same pattern as Eli and did different colors.

I used to have long hair when I was little & I often wore it in two braids.  So I wanted a girl elf with soft, long, dark brown braids.  I used Simply Soft Caron Chocolate yarn.  Love that yarn!  It took me a few tries (days) of experimenting to figure out how to crochet long strands into a hair piece.  Once that was accomplished, I found I needed a "part" down the center back of her hair to complete the braids.  It's a good thing I sewed her hat on her head so that you can't see the mistakes and struggles I had.  But in the end, it all came together!  I think I need to add ribbon bows to each end of her braids, though.   Elsy's hair was the most challenging AND my favorite part of making her.

I wanted all of the trimming of her shoes, arms, and hat to be different than the main color.  So to help brighten her up I chose white.   I thought it would be fun to add bells to her shoes, too!  I crochet so tight that I decided to make her buttons bigger than Eli's.   Then I found scrap Christmas varigated  yarn to make her hat pom-pom.  It too, is bigger than Eli's.  Next time I'll make it smaller.  With Elsy's head of hair, she tends to be a bit more "top heavy".

Eli and Elsy