Doll's Party Dress by McCall Pattern Company

Doll's Party Dress

Crochet
January 1965
Clark's O.N.T. Mercerized Crochet Cotton
Thread ?
10 stitches and 6 rows = 1 inch
in hdc, size 10 thread, #9 hook
1.15 mm
0.85 mm
11.5" female fashion doll
US
English

Thread: one ball each size 10 and size 20

Hooks: US steel sizes 9 and 11

Additional materials:

  • 1/2 yd quarter-inch satin ribbon
  • 1/8 yd fabric for slip
  • 6” round elastic
  • 12 tiny sequins
  • 12 seed beads
  • sewing thread
  • two snap fasteners

The dress is worked in a combination of flat and in-the-round. The bodice is made with #10 thread and closes in the back with snaps. A small ornament on the bodice is made of sequins sewn on with seed beads. The skirt is made with #20 thread. A ribbon is threaded through the waist.

The pattern includes instructions for an elastic-waist fabric slip.

Sized for a Barbie-type doll with the 1960s figure: 5.5”/3.125”/5”. The fit may vary on modern dolls.