June 1973 - Voting

Richard Nixon was the President and the Watergate scandal was heating up though it would be another year before he resigned.  Secretariat won the Belmont Stakes and the Triple Crown.
 
The Top 40 Songs included:

• Kodachrome – Paul Simon
• Daniel  - Elton John
• Bad Bad Leroy Brown – Jim Croce
• Yesterday Once More – The Carpenters
• Fire Lake – Bob Seger
• Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree – Dawn Featuring Tony Orlando
• Diamond Girl – Seals and Crofts
• You Are the Sunshine of My Life – Stevie Wonder
• Little Willie – The Sweet
• My Love – Paul McCartney and Wings
• No More Mr Nice Guy – Alice Cooper

 
Best seller list top 15 Fiction included

• Once is Not Enough Jacqueline Susann
• Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
• Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach

 
Some popular movies in June 1973

• Soylent Green
• Live and Let Die
• The Aristocats

 
 
The June 1973 issue of Workbasket Magazine has five patterns; Dress with Butterfly Sleeves (cover photo), Multi-Shaded Bag, Lacy Shawl, Shell and Jiffy Lace Baby Set..   

You’ll choose between the Dress with Butterfly Sleeves and the Jiffy Lace Baby Set.
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Both the baby set and the dress are done with six ounces of sport weight yarn.  I have plenty of sport weight yarn but I don’t have six ounces of any one color so which ever one you choose will be done in at least two colors.
 
The baby set is done with a technique called jiffy lace (also known as broomstick lace).  I learned how to do this at one of our last in-person crochet guild meetings.   The catch with this pattern is that it calls for size 50 knitting needle and I have a size 35.  If I do this one it will probably end up being a doll size instead of a 6 month baby size.
 
I kind of wanted to make the bag but I don’t have any yarn that would really hold its shape and not stretch like the Spinnerin Yarn Company’s Mardi Gras yarn that’s suggested.  They describe it as straw like and it’s made out of polypropylene.    I could search for it but I’m to do patterns with the yarn I have on hand. 
 
So, your June choices this month are the little girl’s dress or the baby/doll set.  Which one should I make?