Lil Cutesies Dress, Shorts, Hairband and Booties

I've been working with Petite Designs patterns for the smaller dolls for a while now but I've always been slightly concerned that even using baby yarn the items sometimes seem bulky. This time even decreasing the yarn to baby yarn with the suggested hook size the item was too large. I tried size 3 crochet thread before moving to size 10 but keeping the B crochet hook. For the first time I had the detail and lacked the bulkiness I wanted for her designs.

I credit this completely to my gauge issues and not her designs. I'm just glad I found a workable solution. I'm looking forward to trying this on some of her other small doll patterns I own.

Notes:

As mentioned this is one of Petite Creative Designs Patterns that can be purchased here.

I used Thread Art's size 10 Bright Green for the Lil Cutesie outfit. I'm hoping to make a second for the Lots to Love 8 inch doll.

In recent years I've been branching out to find different thread providers as Aunt Lydia's color and size availability has become more limited. I find it a helpful reminder as I post these projects to post which brand I used when I know so I can go back and find it later.

The flower is made from Hobby Lobby's Artiste size 10 threads. A while back I got a boxed of multi-colored hand died threads from them. They are small but they are perfect for small projects to add multi-colored options to a project. It can be hard to find these options sold as individual items. I am starting to use this box for some of my Calico Critter projects as well.

One change I've made to all of these style of patterns is I join all rows. I find the outfit slides on and off the doll and it is a cleaner option for me.

While the stitch count works on the dress moving to thread the pants did not and I had to move to a chain of 64 to get the pants to fit. I eventually reduced it to 62 as I progressed making each leg count 31.

The bottom of the pants are supposed to have a picot trim. It was late at night I read the directions incorrectly and the pants have a sc chain 3 trim. I've added note on the pattern to avoid a future mistake and I'm noting it here to hopefully make the reminder stick.

Booties worked as written with the thread and fit fine.

Headband read row 3 for directions that provide texture to the headband. I clearly missed this and hope to catch it for the Lots to Love 8 inch Baby doll.