Some times life is just odd and amazing. As I was getting ready to prepost this project I realized I hadn't checked my used sites in a bit to find a replacement for my Margaret Funk's 1981 House of White Birches newsprint leaflet Baby Doll Fashions to Crochet.
My sweet loving youngest Sheltie chewed a corner off the booklet last year and I realized having a second copy would not be the worst idea as it is hard to find and clearly is attractive to certain members of my family. I haven't had great luck but today on a whim I decided to search and found a back up not only of this but of her fashion doll book that I also rely heavily on to finish my donations each year. I was so pleased to find both at a reasonable price after not finding a hint of the first in a year.
This is the Summer Dress pattern from that leaflet.
The shoes are made from a Darski's free Peachy Keen pattern found here. This really is my go to pattern for this doll's shoes as they work up quickly and stay on. I use an I hook an worsted weight yarn with an I hook for the shoes.
Notes:
I normally use Lion Brand Ice Cream for this project but this is made with Herchnerrs Worsted.
To get this to fit the JC 16 Inch Baby Doll I started with an E hook and repeated row 5 once. Thus rows 3-6 follow the original directions for 3-5 moving each row directions down one. For the original row 6 now row 7 that starts the skirt I moved to a D hook to decrease the skirt size as it was too large with the e hook.
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