Forever Summer Baby Dress by Noelle Stiles

Forever Summer Baby Dress

Crochet
May 2016
DK (11 wpi) ?
4 stitches and 3 rows = 1 inch
in single crochet (US) with smaller hook
4.5 mm
5.5 mm (I)
400 - 600 yards (366 - 549 m)
0-3 Months, 3-6 Months, and 6-12 Months
US
English
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Description
This sweet summer dress has the lovely structure of a shirt dress adding slight formality, and fun of bright pink coloration adding playful nuance. The skirt has a zig-zag structure with a few rows of pink to highlight this stitch pattern. This dress is worked in three separate sections for the top, then sewn together. The skirt is worked in the round.

Materials

  • Bernat Softee Baby (362 yards per skein), Colors: White (1 skein)
  • Sweet Georgia Superwash DK (256 yards per skein), Color: Rosebud (pink) (1 skein)
  • 2-3 Buttons

Supplies

  • 4.5 mm Crochet Hook
  • 5.5 mm Crochet Hook
  • Tapestry needle

Dress dimensions

  • 0-3 Months: 8.5 inches wide at chest and 21 inches at skirt bottom (double number for circumference) and 12.5 inches long
  • 3-6 Months: 8.5 inches wide at chest and 21 inches at skirt bottom (double number for circumference) and 14 inches long
  • 6-12 Months: 9 inches wide at chest and 21 inches wide at skirt bottom (double number for circumference) and 15 inches long

Gauge
4 sc in 3 rows is 1 inch wide by 1 inch high with the 4.5 mm hook size.