Swallow Dress is an easy knitting pattern for an amazing cotton dress decorated with wide flounces.

Overview:

• We will knit the BACK and the FRONT separately working bottom up, back and forth in rows.
• On both sides we will work the flounces.
• We will sew SHOULDERS seams.
• We will then pick up the stitches along the outer edges to create the armhole BORDERS.
• We will sew the SIDES.

Level: easy / intermediate

Languages: English and Italian - 2 pdf

Sizes:
(XS) S (M, L, XL)
Our sample is in size S, in the INSTRUCTIONS outside the brackets.

Measurements:
Finished hips: (49) 51 (53, 56, 58) cm / (19.3) 20.1 ,(20.9, 22.0, 22.8) in
Finished waist: (40) 42 (44, 47, 49) cm / (15.7) 14.5 (17.3, 18.5, 19.3) in
Finished lenght: (72) 83 (84, 86, 95) cm / (23.3) 32.7 (33.1, 33.9, 37.4) in

Yarn:
Yarn Requirements: (456) 502 (551, 602, 655) mt / (498) 549 (603, 659, 717) yds of DK weight yarn.
Suggested Yarn: (653), 700, (732, 771, 812) gr of We Are Knitters THE COTTON (balls of 100 gr/3.5 oz x 212 m/232 yd).

Skills Necessary:
Stockinette Stitch
Garter Stitch
Decreases:

• right leaning decrease: SSK
• left leaning decrease: K2tog Increases: KFB Picking up stitches Horizontal Invisible Seaming Vertical Invisible Seaming

Before we begin, I’d like to give you some simple pointers:

• First, read the whole text. On the last page you will find the finished measurements for the various sizes. Choose yours, considering that the dress has 5/6 cm of positive ease. Isolate instructions in text, underlining them or highlighting them with a different color.
• If you find that you do not know the techniques used, watch the video tutorials now. Scan the QR you find next to the explanations and access, without any registration, to canva.com, in view-only mode.
• It is always important to make a small guage swatch with the yarn you have chosen. Check that, with the same number of stitches and rows, your guage matches ours. If not, try to increase or decrease the tension while working or, even, to change the needles size. In any case, being a handmade product, it is normal that small differences may be between our sample and your finished garment. Always give space and confidence to your creativity!

Happy Knitting!

Veronica