Three-Piece Suit by McCall Pattern Company

Three-Piece Suit

Crochet
January 1967
Light Fingering ?
7 stitches and 8 rows = 1 inch
in single crochet on #0 hook
1.75 mm
3.25 mm (D)
11.5" Female Fashion Doll
US
English

The title is “Three-Piece Suit” in the Summer Make-it magazine. It is “Crocheted Suit” in the Doll Fashions magazine.

The pattern includes the jacket, skirt and top. The jacket and skirt are made from fingering-weight yarn. The top is made from #20 thread.

Yarn: 1 oz. of yarn is required for the jacket and skirt. One ball of #20 thread is required for the top.

Gauge: For the yarn: 7 st and 8 rows per inch on #0 hook.
For the thread: 11 patterns per 2” on #6 hook.

Additional materials: Four small buttons, one snap fastener

The jacket and skirt are worked sideways. They’re both seamed and are shaped with short rows. The skirt fastens at the waist with a snap.

The top is seamed at the shoulders. It fastens in the back with buttons and buttonholes.

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