easily design your own doll dresses following a few simple steps.  This article explains how to make a basic dress, that you can then use as either a sundress, or that you can crochet dainty ruffles on for a more elegant fashion.  First you will want to grab your doll, a crochet hook, some yarn, a pen and a notebook. As you crochet, you will want to make sure that you write down all of your stitches so that you can save your design in writing.  First crochet a simple chain until it’s long enough to reach comfortably around the neck of your doll. I usually crochet my chains to be long enough to just reach around the width of the neck, then I add 3 extra chains to give enough room for it to fit neatly without being too tight.  Next, crochet 2 singles stitches in each chain, and there you will have your basic neck.  Now, place your neck on your doll, with the ends being centered in the back, and mark the stitches right underneath the arms by inserting small bits of yarn into the stitches. These can be removed once your arm loops are crocheted.  Double crochet to where the arms should be (the area you marked with your bits of yarn), and then next make a chain using the number of stitches marked previously with your bits of yarn. Now add 4 or 5 more chains to give a bit of extra room for the arms.  To gauge if you have enough chain stitches, you can pin the chain in place in the last stitch not marked for the arms, and see if the "loop" slides onto the arm easily.  Once you’ve gauged your chain, then double crochet in the next unmarked stitch to close the "loop" onto the neckpiece.  Now double crochet to the next arm area, and create a chain with the same number of stitches as your previous chain, close that loop as well, and then double crochet to the end of the neckpiece.   humble row