Now that spring is on the way, I bet you know a little girl who could use a darling new knitting dress in her wardrobe! The bodice of this dress is knitted in two pieces (front and back), so there are small seams to join at the shoulders and under the arms. The skirt is knit in the round. This was only my second attempt at intarsia (the pattern I learned on was the ever-popular “Weasley Sweater”) so please don’t be intimidated at the prospect of intarsia. If I can write this pattern using it, you can certainly knit it! When knitting the bodice using intarsia, you might find it easiest to not use the accent color in the pattern (knitting every stitch either the main color or the main argyle color) then going back and using duplicate stitch to put in the lines of accent stitches. Alternately, you could use the stranded knitting technique to create the front of the bodice as well.

The front of the bodice is written as a chart (with a clear symbol legend) and the rest of the pattern is written instructions. When writing my patterns, I try to make them simple to follow, explaining abbreviations and adding pictures if an instruction might be hard to picture in your mind. I welcome questions from customers if they come across something in the pattern they feel needs further explanation!

Available sizes: 0-3 mo, 3-6 mo, 6-12 mo, 12-18 mo, 2T, 3T, 4T, 5

Materials: Knit Picks - “Comfy Fingering” yarn 218 yds per 50g skein
Example dress uses “Whisker” as the main color, “Flamingo” is the
light pink in the argyle and “Peony” is the dark pink accent.

This is a #1 “fingering weight” yarn.
2 (2, 3, 3, 4, 4, 5, 5 ) skeins of main color [350 (420, 515, 610, 690,
820, 950, 1090 yds]
1 skein each of two colors for argyle
[All sizes will use less than 20 yds of each argyle color]

Set of US size 4 DPNs
24” US size 4 circular needle
2 buttons that are each a half inch or smaller in diameter
Gauge: 26 sts x 34 rows in stockinette stitch = 4”X4” square

Skills used: Provisional Cast-on (though you can get around this with a regular
cast-on and picking up stitches later to knit the skirt)
Knit into the front and back of one stitch (KFB)
Knit (or Purl) two stitches together (K2tog, P2tog)
Yarn over (yo) do this loosely because yarn-overs will become your button holes
Picking up stitches
Mattress stitch, Kitchener stitch, and Duplicate Stitch
If you are unfamiliar with any of these techniques, YouTube.com is a fantastic
resource for knitting tutorial videos!