Knit the Perfect Sweater Dress for Your Little One

If you don’t follow Tanis Fiber Arts on Instagram, you really should. Her photos are colorful and fiber filled, her space is encouraging and she has an adorable little girl who lately has been showing up in a lot of sweet knit things.

The main little girl’s design she’s been sharing lately is the Little Luminosity, a sweater dress with a super colorful yoke (that happens to match an adult sweater, too, but that design hasn’t been released yet). The pattern goes from 0-6 months up to 8-10 years, and offers options to make it a sweater or a dress, with short or long sleeves.

My daughter might still fit into a 10 so I’m super tempted.

The pattern is a great way to use up little odds and ends of sock yarn, or you can use fewer colors on the yoke if you don’t have that big of a sock yarn stash.

You can grab the pattern on Ravelry for $6.

[Photo: Tanis Lavallee.]

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Why should the fireplace get all the fun? Instead of knitting stockings this year, why not whip up a pair of Christmas themed socks? These Christmas sock knitting patterns are lots of fun to make and you can wear them to holiday gatherings for years to come.

For our friends in the southern part of the world, there are the Christmas in July socks from the Kiwi Lodge – Kylie (Ravelry link). These shorty socks are covered in Christmas trees and have bright pink heels and toes for a tropical feel. There’s also an option to make a longer sock if you celebrate somewhere it’s colder.

Twin Stitches Designs (Ravelry) has a fun pattern with mix and match colorwork motifs you can use to build your own cozy Christmas socks. From the sample socks I see Christmas puddings, trucks hauling trees, Santa belts, ornaments and a couple of different borders. There may be more patterns included but the listing doesn’t say. Make a pair that matches or use different motifs on each foot for extra holiday cheer.

If you want to stick to Christmas puddings on your holiday socks, check out this cute pattern from Stone Knits. These lovely socks feature a band of puddings around the leg and a bit of holly by the toes.

These vintage holiday light socks from Grey Owl Knits by Sarah are classic looking and lots of fun at the same time. I love this color combination but of course you can make your lights and stripes whatever colors you like or have on hand. They’re worked using stranded knitting.

And if you’d like even more of a mix of patterns for your socks, try Barbara Ceglédi’s Christmas Chaos socks, a free pattern on Ravelry. The pattern includes 25 little motifs you can choose from, ranging from snowflakes and Christmas trees to elf hats, reindeer and hearts.

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