A three-doll set where the silhouettes do all the work, and the size the hair needs.
Three dolls
The Sanderson Sisters crochet doll set is Winifred, Sarah and Mary — a small set that sells like a large one every autumn.
Told apart by shape
Three witches in similar robes would be three of the same doll in different colours. They are not: one is tall and narrow, one is built around a wide skirt, one is rounder and shorter. Recognition here comes from silhouette first and colour second, which is what lets them work as a group of three rather than a repeat.
Hair, three ways
Each sister''s hair uses a different method and a different yarn weight — coiled, long and straight, and full and curled. It is the slowest part of each doll and the part that makes each recognisable from across a room.
Which size
10 inches and up, where the robes and the hair both carry. Three at the same size is the usual order; mixing sizes breaks the group.
Where they come from
Three witches — one commanding, one vain, one entirely elsewhere — returned for a single Halloween night after three hundred years.
Their personalities were drawn as three silhouettes before they were written as three voices, which is the reason a set of only three dolls does not read as repetition.
See it at Sanderson Sisters crochet doll set, the wider cast at Hocus Pocus crochet doll set, and more in seasonal crochet dolls.