Knit our Short Sleeved Dress and Sleeveless Dress suitable to fit a child from birth to 7 years old.

Design:
The dresses have a pine cone design and a sand stitch hem. The front, back and sleeves are knitted separately on straight needles and sewn together. Stitches are picked up to complete the neckline and for the opening at the back. For the Sleeveless Dress, stitches are picked up to finish off the armhole edges.

Sizes:
The pattern includes 6 sizes to fit Child: 0-6 mths, 6-12 mths, 1-2 yrs, 2-3 yrs, 4-5 yrs and 6-7 years old

Yarn:
The pattern uses cotton double knitting wool (an alternative yarn for overseas knitters would be USA light worsted or Australian 8 ply), but you can substitute for regular DK yarn.
The picture shows the 0-6 months size knitted using Rico Baby Cotton Soft DK in shade Mauve (048) for Short Sleeved Dress and Smokey Rose (047) for the Sleeveless Dress.

Tension:
22 sts and 28 rows to 4 inches/10 cm (stocking stitch) on 4 mm needles or size needed to achieve stated tension.

Needles:
Sizes 3.25 mm and 4.0 mm (USA 3 and 6) straight needles are required.

Other requirements:
3 (3, 3, 3, 4, 4) buttons for each dress
Stitch holders

Please note the pattern is written in English using British terminology.