Hand Knitted Dress: Child's Petticoat

Hand knitted dress: What they used to wear in the olden days, can now be adapted to very smart clothing! This petticoat pattern makes an adorable little dress for your little one!!!

A dainty little garment, having an open lace pattern for the sleeves, shoulders and lower edge of the skirt. The bodice is, for the sake of elasticity, worked in rib of K.1 and P.1. It is intended for a Child of from 1 to 2 years.

Materials: -

• 4.5 ozs. 4-ply Beehive Scotch Fingering in white, and half oz. Beehive Silversheen in palest pink or blue.
• Two no.8 Celluloid knitting needles.
• A fine crochet hook.
• 2 yds ribbon.

THE FRONT OF THE HAND KNITTED DRESS

Using the fingering wool, cast on 107 stitches.

1st and 2nd rows - knit plain.

3rd row - K.2, *P.1, wool forward, K.2 together, K.3, repeat from * to the last 3 stitches, P.1, K.2.

4th row - K.2, purl to the last 2 stitches, knit these. Repeat this row after each of the following pattern rows.

5th row - K.2, *P.1, K.1, wool forward, K.2 together, K.2, repeat from * to the last 3 stitches, P.1, K.2.

7th row - K.2, *P.1, K.2, wool forward, K.2 together, K.1, repeat from * to the last 3 stitches, P.1, K.2.

9th row - K.2, *P.1, K.3, wool forward, K.2 together, repeat from * to the last 3 stitches, P.1, K.2.

10th row - Like the 4th row.

Repeat from the 3rd to the 10th row twice.

27th row - knit plain.

28th row - K.2, purl to the last 2 stitches, knit these.

Repeat these 2 rows until the work measures 11 inches from the commencement. Then continue for the Bodice, as follows:-

1st row - K.1, *wool forward, K.2 together twice, repeat from * to the end of the row, knitting the last 2 stitches separately (there should then be 82 stitches on the needle).

2nd row - K.2, purl to the last 2 stitches, knit these.

3rd row - K.2, *P.1, K.1, repeat from * to the end of the row.

Repeat the last row until the work measures 6 inches from the waist.

Then commence the shoulders, as follows: -

With the right side of the work facing you, repeat from the 3rd row of the front, on the first 23 stitches only, until two repeats of the pattern are worked. Cast off. Commencing again at the neck, cast off all but the last 23 stitches, then work the second shoulder on these exactly like the first.

THE BACK OF THE HAND KNITTED DRESS

Work exactly like the front.

THE SLEEVES

Cast on 53 stitches. Repeat from the 1st row of the front until a depth of 3 patterns is worked. Cast off.

TO MAKE UP THE HAND KNITTED DRESS

Press the plain portion carefully with a hot iron. Sew up the shoulder and side seams, leaving about 4.5 inches for the armholes. Sew up the seams of the sleeves and fix the latter in the armholes, placing seam to seam.

With the silversheen, work the following edging at the neck: -

1st row - 1 tr. in each of 2 stitches, *2 ch., miss a stitch, 1 tr. in each of the next 2 stitches, repeat from * all round, joining at the end with 1 S.C.

2nd row - 1 D.C. in the 1st space, *3 tr. in the next space, 3 ch., 1 tr. in the top of the last tr. just made, 3 tr. more in the same space into which the last 3 tr. were worked, 1 D.C. in the next space, repeat from * all round. Fasten off.

Repeat the second row round the lower edge of the skirt and at the edge of the sleeves. Thread the ribbon at the waist and neck.

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