From Tunic to Dress

This lace dress by Rasmilla was supposed to be a tunic top for my daughter Lydia, but I enjoyed knitting the lace pattern so much that I decided to make a dress instead.    

The pattern is made from the top-down, which I love.  I used five skeins of Alchemy Temple yarn in a color called Hush. It's knit in two pieces.

I modified the pattern a bit because I found the directions confusing at times.  They had been translated from Danish to English. Also, no graph was provided, which made it difficult to incorporate additional stitches in-between the lace pattern.  I unraveled the pattern several times and re-started when the lace was not lining up correctly.

I was unraveling the project for the last time when I came to the yoke section, which was worked in garter stitch.  I remembered that with the February Baby Sweater I increased stitches using "Make 1" throughout the yoke section while knitting garter stitch rows.  I decided to do the same with Lydia's dress.  I picked up the stitches I hadn't unraveled and continued working the garter stitch rows.  I increased stitches at various points until I had the 83 needed to complete the back which also worked for the front.  I was then able to work the lace pattern throughout the dress.   

Despite the initial frustrations, this was definitely a fun project to work on. The eight stitch lace pattern was easy to remember which made it ideal to work on while commuting to and from work. 

Comments

[nik]

How cute is she? found you through ravelry.

[Megan]

So adorable. I hope my next one is a girl so that I have an excuse to knit cute girly things like that. (found you through Ravelry as well)