Please meet- footballer Lionel!

An adorable Football Soccer Doll Lionel. Knit him in your favorite team colors. Any Football Soccer fan would love to have this adorable doll.
This doll is the perfect gift for the Football Fan in your life :)
This little guy wears a realistic-like uniform of the Barcelona football club, and he is based on the real person who plays for Barcelona – guess who? :)

The dolls are created using basic knitting stitches and are worked ‘in the round’
The pattern is easy to follow with step-by-step detailed instructions accompanied by plenty of photos. (It is 51 pages long with 200 photos illustrating the process). All pattern rows are numbered.

THIS UNIQUE LIONEL DRESSED DOLL PATTERN INCLUDES FULL BODY (Hands patterns 15 pages) INSTRUCTIONS, LIONEL T-SHIRT, LIONEL SHORTS & LIONEL BALL . PATTERNS IN 51 PAGES.

SKILL LEVEL: Intermediate

Knitting method: knit in the round

This pattern assumes you know how to knit in the round (using your favorite method, be it DPN, two circulars or magic loop), purl, increase (kfb), decrease (k2tog ), and long tail cast on.

FINISHED TOY DETAILS

Football Soccer Lionel Doll is approximately 31-32 cm from head to toe (12,20-12,6”) and approximately 23 cm (9,05”) when seated. He is made of soft acrylic yarn, good humor and love. You can use any other yarn you find suitable - Doll can come taller or smaller but still a lot of fun to knit and to become friends with.

SKILLS REQUIRED:
Knitting
Purling
Increasing
Decreasing
Knitting in rounds
Casting off

MATERIALS AND TOOLS you will need:

◆ For your toy you can use any yarn you prefer. The toy may become bigger or smaller, but it will be very nice anyway!
You can use acrylic yarn. The thicker yarn you use, the bigger toy you will get.
MATERIALS AND TOOLS you will need:

• Four double-pointed needles in a size appropriate to get a tight gauge ( I used a size 0 (US)- 2.00mm) U.K.-14
• I used Acrylic-359 meters (393 yards )/100 grams (3.53 ounces) (renk №219) Beige color-50 gr
• Yarn: 100% Acrylic (Wool): I have used wool 150 meters / 50 grams (164 yards /1.76 ounces) )- blue color-30 gr, red color-20 gr. black color-10 gr
• • For hairs- Brazilia yarn from Schachenmayr - brown color 98 yards (90 meters) /50 grams (1.76 ounces) – 10 gr. (small amount of brown color Acrylic yarn)
• small amount of white color Acrylic yarn
• Felt- thickness 1 mm (White color)
• stitch marker
• tapestry needle
• Fiberfill stuffing
• safety eye or embroider floss -12mm
• Universal transparent glue.
• Oil pastels-pink color.
• Scissors
• 1 small buttons

Abbreviations:

• K- Knit
• P – Purl
• Ss = stocking stitch (one row knit, one row purl) always start on a knit row unless otherwise directed
• Kfb – Knit into the front & back of the same stitch, increasing one stitch.
• K2tog – knit two together (right slanted decrease)
• * … * repeat stitches between the asterisks
• st: stitch
• Wrong side ( WS )
• (nr) - indicates the total number of stitches in the current row/round