Knit our Santa Claus Motif Short Sleeved Dress and Sleeveless Dress suitable to fit a child from 6 months to 7 years old.

Design:
The dresses have a Father Christmas motif and snowflake motif to the front and back with a moss stitch hemline and garter stitch neckline. 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.
Santa motifs are worked using the intarsia method using separate small balls of yarn for each section of colour. The snowflake pattern is worked using the Fair Isle method stranding yarn on the wrong side of the work.

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

Yarn:
The pattern uses double knitting wool (an alternative yarn for overseas knitters would be USA light worsted or Australian 8 ply)
The picture shows the outfits for size 1-2 years and knitted using:
Rico Baby Classic DK in shades Red (009), White (001), Green (062), Powder (038), Grey (044)

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, 4, 4) buttons for each dress
Stitch holders and stitch markers
Please note the pattern is written in English using British terminology.