Going to try for long sleeves so my sweetie can wear it all winter. If I can squeak out a hood, too, I’ll be thrilled, but I don’t think I have the yardage.

7/12- The bodice front is very easy to do while looking so cute and fancy. I like how it’s working up. The yarn is behaving beautifully as well.

Threw in a few mods of my own preference. Skipped the botton hole in the ribbed collar and I am doing them 10 rows apart instead of the 6-8 the pattern calls for. They just seemed awfully close that way with buttons on top of each other, so I figured 10 rows would still give it the same look of a tightly-buttoned bodice, but give just a smidge more room.

7/13- Bodice is finished. Pattern called for 8 rows of CW ITR after splitting for the sleeves, but I did 4 since I sized up slightly for my short little sweetie.
Doing long sleeves so I’m doing the sleeves now before the skirt. 56 sts. Reducing by k2tog every 4 rows for a tapered 13” sleeve. Doing a 4” ribbing(starting at 9”) on size 5’s at the end of the sleeve for cuffing and growing room.

7/15- mods for the skirt: after ribbing, changed to size 7’s, knit one row. Repeated k5, m1 for row 2. Continuing on size 7’s for the length of the skirt.
1.5” into the skirt and I added 4 equally-spaced stitches to hopefully break up the stacking.

7/19- Ran out of colorway 4 inches short of the necessary skirt length so I’m doing an extra inch in the ruffle and blocking the whole garment longer since it’s a smidge too wide for her anyway.

My mods on the ruffle:
R1- knit
R2- purl
R3- Knit
R4- purl
R5- k1, YO repeat
R6- knit
R7- p1, sl1 repeat
R8- knit
R9- sl1, p1 repeat
R10- knit
R11- p1, sl1 repeat
R12- knit
R13- sl1, p1 repeat
BO knit-wise