Knitted Riding Suit by Virginia Lakin

Knitted Riding Suit

Knitting
January 1969
Light Fingering ?
9 stitches = 1 inch
in stockinette stitch
US 1 - 2.25 mm
US 5 - 3.75 mm
11.5" Fashion Doll
English

The pattern includes the jacket, skirt, boots, and hat with veil.

Additional materials: #30 crochet thread for the veil and fringe; snap fasteners and small buttons for the jacket

The jacket has top-down, one-piece raglan construction. The only seams are the sleeve seams. It closes with snaps and has decorative buttons.

The riding skirt is worked top-down in one piece. It has leg and crotch seams. It slips on with no fasteners.

The hat and veil are worked in one continuous piece. The hat has a back seam.

Each boot is worked in one piece and seamed along the sole and up the back.

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