Monday, January 31, 2011

Fairy Dress

I am on a roll.....I got the cotton/bamboo yarn out and the net fabric in purple, hot pink, and pink for a Fairy Dress in Zoe Mellor book 'adorable knits for tots'.
I used Patons Serenity DK Bamboo & Cotton, knitted on 3.25mm needles. I knit the top in the round to save on seams. The skirt pattern was just a drawing with no measurements, so I just had a guess as I know what size my grand-daughter is and the length for long pants and worked it out from there. I drew a pattern on newspaper and cut it out.
I am really enjoying this sewing/knitting time of late. It didn't take long to sew the 3 layers together hem over a band and thread through elastic - that done and it was back to the knitting I started on Saturday. Today Monday - all done.

The only change I made to the pattern was I did eye cord for the straps instead of using ribbon.


Now to find something else to knit.

4 comments:

Sue said...

It is simply gorgeous!

weebug said...

very cute!

Rose Red said...

Oh sweet! I think she will love that!

Katewillknit said...

This is so cute.