Progress report - I am now working on hands and arms. The easiest would be to simply keep going on those short sleeves, but to crochet in the round with the whole doll attached is just too cumbersome. Stuffing the arm and hand first AND then pushing the wires through and all the way into the hand? I will see if this is a good way to proceed...I am leaving a hole where I will crochet the thumb, perhaps that will help.
Oh and I will shorten the arm - wires!