PATTERN FOR A ROUND YOKE. MASTER OLGA N.

Children's knitted dress

This dress for a girl combines a lace leaf pattern on the yoke, smooth stockinette on the skirt, and a pearl stitch pattern. The design is easy to knit and fits neatly.

Sizes:
6 months; 1, 2, 4 years.

Bust circumference: 43 (50, 53, 58) cm.

Garment length: 42 (45, 48, 52) cm.

Materials:
Viking Alpaca Silk yarn (50% alpaca, 50% silk, 50 g/134 m) — white color 3 (3, 4, 4) skeins and pink color 1 skein.
Needles: circular 2.5 mm and 3 mm.

Gauge:
25 stitches = 10 cm in stockinette on 3 mm needles.

Knitting instructions

Yoke

Begin work from the neckline.
With 2.5 mm needles and the main color yarn, cast on 72 (84, 96, 96) stitches.
Join to work in the round.

Knit 6 rounds in garter stitch (alternating one knit round and one purl round).
Switch to 3 mm needles and white yarn.

Knit the leaf pattern chart, working the rows in knit stitches.
After completing the chart, increase the stitches — total should be 144 (168, 192, 192) stitches.
Cast off stitches.

Back and Front

Along the edge of the bound-off stitches, pick up 45 (51, 55, 59) stitches for the back.
Skip 27 (33, 41, 37) stitches for the sleeves, pick up 9 (11, 13) stitches freely and then pick up stitches for the front — 45 (51, 55, 59).
Repeat skipping the stitches of the second sleeve and again pick up 9 (11, 13).
In total you will have 108 (132, 142, 144) stitches.

Mark the center of the back and front, as well as the two side points — four markers in total.
Continue knitting in stockinette stitch to the 3rd row, starting from a new set of underarm stitches.

Then knit in knit stitches on all stitches, making increases in every row next to each marker (8 increases per row).

Knitting chart for the children's dress

Below is the chart for the yoke pattern.
Note: the section marked with the note “Do not knit for 6 months” is excluded when working the size for the 6-month age.

Legend (rewritten, but values preserved):

• Empty square — Knit stitch.

• Gray square — 2 stitches worked together knitwise through the back loop.

• Black square - slip a stitch as knit, 2 together knitwise, and pass the slipped stitch over the knitted stitch

• Cell with a dot — slip 1 stitch as if to knit, then knit 2 together and pass the slipped stitch over the knitted stitch.

• — yarn over.

• S — 1 knit stitch through the back loop.

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  2 together knitwise

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