This little knit dress covered in eyelets looks like the perfect thing to stitch up for spring and summer, with sweet candy colored stripes that area s fun to knit as they are to wear.
The Sweetie Knit Babydoll Dress from Yarnspirations is worked in a repeating pattern of stripes and eyelets across the skirt with a stockinette stitch bodice.
The skirt is worked from side to side in a garter stitch eyelet pattern, with short rows worked throughout to shape the skirt. Once that part is knit, you sew the seam up the back and pick up stitches to knit the bodice in the round from the bottom up, with raglan shaping for the sleeves.
The dress pattern has six sizes, ranging from a finished chest measurement of 34 to 60 inches, or 86.5 to 152.5 cm. The smallest size is meant to fit an actual chest measurement ranging from 28-34 inches, or 71-86.5 cm, while the largest fits 56-62 inches, or 147 to 157.5 cm, but that gives you negative ease in the largest size if you’re above 60 inches actual chest measurement, which I don’t think was the intended ease of the project.
The pattern calls for three different colors of Caron Sweetie Cakes, which is exclusive to Michaels (and looks like it is only available by shipping, not in stores). The yarn is a medium weight acrylic and nylon blend, so you could use other Caron Cakes yarns (like Baby Cakes or Blossom Cakes, to name a couple) to get similar color changes.
Of course you can use any yarn you like and make it a solid color or do stripes, or use a single colorway of a self-striping yarn to make a garment that’s still a lot of fun without having to keep track of stripe color changes.
You can grab a copy of this free knitting pattern from Yarnspirations.
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