“La petite robe” - the little dress is about as girly as it can get!
Sweet and comfortable, and with lots of dressing possibilites: over blouses, tees, pants, leggings….

Construction
The dress is completely seamless.
Lower body is worked bottom-up, and in-the-round, from cast-on to underarms. Sts are bound off for underarms for extra ease, new sts are cast-on for the sleeve-openings. Upper body is worked in-the-round to the bind-off.
The pattern explains how to work sleeves (if desired).

Design
The lower body of the dress features A-line-shaping, and a broad section of stranded pattern. The upper body features a section of stranded pattern and a rounded neckline.

Sizes
3 mo / 9 – 12 mo / 18 mo – 2 years
Chest circumference: 43/51/58 cm = 17/20/22.75”

Materials
Yarn: I used “Le Cashmere & Lambswool” from Biches et Bûches to work the dress. This light fingering weight yarn comes in skeins of 50 gr/1.76 oz and 249 m/272 yards. You will need 1/1/2 skeins of MC (light grey) of this specific yarn to work the dress. You will also need smaller amounts (less than 10 gr each) of the contrasting colors: dark grey / pink / white. I recommend that you use a yarn that knits up to gauge. Needles: circular needles, 40 cm/16” and 60 cm/24”,
size 3.5 mm/US4 to work the lower and upper body.

Gauge
22 sts and 32 rows in stockinette, as well as in stranded pattern, = 10 x 10 cm/4 x 4”.

The pattern
The stranded patterns are charted.
All measurements are given in cm’s as well as in inches.
All necessary stitch-counts are given.
There is a schematic.