When our daughter shared a photo of our granddaughter pulling herself up to a standing position I just knew I had to knit her a little dress. We were a bit surprised to see her doing it already as she was six-and-a-half months old at the time. In the picture she had on a little dress and you could see frilly nappy peeping out below. Very cute!
After a bit of virtual consultation (sending Ravelry links via WhatsApp gives you a decent-sized photo in the message with the link below) we decided on Rotational in grey. Younger Soknitsome Daughter has a fondness for black and grey and likes grey clothes for Soknitsome Granddaughter, too. I knitted the dress in dark and very pale grey stripes. The pattern was easy to follow although I must have miscounted somewhere before joining the back and front as I had to add two stitches to get the slip-stitch colour change row to work out properly.
The yarn is Australian Superfine Merino from Cleckheaton. I bought it at a yarn-tasting hosted by the Knitters’ Guild NSW. Since it’s a superwash yarn, I was good and knitted and washed quite a large tension square. I then went down a needle size for the dress because I was also aiming for a garment that wouldn’t look too huge on a slim nine-month old baby (this is more a dress for the winter months). The dress actually works well as a tunic later, too so I did knit towards a 12-month size for length as our granddaughter is not short.
You can imagine my alarm when on giving the dress a bath, I could feel it relaxing beneath my fingers! Fortunately, after being laid out flat to dry, it shrank back to the expected dimensions. Mr Soknitsome got to visit them during his business trip to Germany and promptly sent pictures. Although little Soknitsome Granddaughter did pull herself up to stand while he was there, it was never while wearing the dress!
gladeridercrafts said:
Very cute! And such a relief that the dress shunk again!
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soknitsome said:
Indeed. I’d have been quite upset if it hadn’t as just shortening it would have spoiled the proportions and there wasn’t enough time to reknit the whole dress!
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chrisknits said:
What a sweet dress! I just bought a dress pattern and plan to use that for baby girls who arrive in the near future. Now watch, everyone I know will have boys!
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soknitsome said:
🙂 Fingers crossed you get to knit for some wee girls, too!
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Sharon Alison Butt said:
You are so talented! What a pretty little dress.
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soknitsome said:
Thank you! It was a fun knit.
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