A cute dress for a little princess can be knitted or crocheted, or you can combine these knitting methods. Openwork patterns, beautiful borders, embroidery with threads and ribbons. All these ways are good to decorate a dress for a beloved girl. Choose yarn for knitting based on when the baby will wear a dress. Choose soft merino wool for a warm dress worn on cooler days, and cotton yarn for a dress worn on hot summer days.
It is necessary
cotton or woolen yarn, knitting needles, circular needles No. 1, 5 or 3, 5
Instructions
Step 1
To knit a sleeveless dress, you need about 250 g of cotton yarn (5 skeins of 50 g each). And for a dress with long sleeves, you will need 300-350 g of woolen yarn. Choose yarns made from natural fibers. Soft yarn made of merino wool (sheep breed) or yarn containing 30-40% acrylic is well suited for children's clothes. For a lightweight dress, choose a classic cotton yarn. Before knitting, make a pattern for the future dress, according to your measurements.
Step 2
Next, knit a sample 10 * 10 cm. Make calculations: the required number of loops for the typesetting row and decreases, based on the density of your knitting, texture and thickness, the selected yarn for the dress.
Step 3
First, start knitting the upper part of the front. To knit a dress from thick yarn, use knitting needles No. 3, 5, and for thin - No. 1, 5. Type the required number of loops on the knitting needles, based on your calculations. Knit, forming the contours of the part, according to your pattern. For the back, tie two pieces, adding 8 loops on each side for the plank. The clasp of the dress will be located here. Knit the bar with garter stitch. Make holes for the buttons on the placket on the left side. Sew the side and shoulder cuts, sweep the fastening bar.
Step 4
The skirt of the dress can be knitted with any fancy pattern, for example, with leaves, bumps or braids. Type on the circular knitting needles loops along the bottom of the resulting yoke. Distribute the loops in such a way that an equal number of motifs are obtained on the front and back of the dress. To do this, the total number of loops should be divided by the number of loops in the pattern repeat. Knit the required length of the skirt in a circle.
Step 5
To knit the sleeves, cast on the loops along the armhole and knit from top to bottom. The length of the sleeve depends on your desire, you can knit short, long or 3/4 length.
Step 6
Decorate the neckline, hem of the dress and the edges of the sleeves with lace. Decorate the yoke with embroidery or applique. It remains to sew buttons to the strap on the back of the dress and put on a new outfit.
