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Stockholm vest by petite knit with a lil guy from the book wit knits.🐸🧶

(it's free on the internet archive)

WIP WEDNESDAY

The knitted dress saga...

For a handful of years now, I have been trying to knit a dress. The idea came to me after I saw this picture in an old knitting pattern book from the 1930s.

At the time, I didn't have the skill set to knit something like this, but it's always been in the back of my mind. As I've gained more knitting and design experience, I've been practicing simple lace stitch patterns and learning to read charts properly. For all the lace knitters out there, I applaud you… Those charts always seem to give me a headache and make my eyes go cross-eyed.

Now, after a lot of practice, frogging, and reknitting, I've finally started designing a dress that seems to be working. I don't want to get my hopes up quite yet, but I'm almost done with the 2x2 ribbed hem, and so far I've had only one near-fatal mishap with my stitches. I know I should use lifelines when I'm working with smaller knitting needles. That would be the smart choice, but who has time for that! (Says the girl who spent almost an hour rescuing her stitches and putting them back on her itty-bitty US 0 (2.0 mm) circulars.) In the next week, I hope to have my lace tried and tested and be well on my way to making my very first knitted dress.

Wish me luck… I'm going to need it.

So so so so proud and excited about how this sweater turned out. Design is so gorgeous (Pattern: Petiteknit’s Moby Sweater) and love how the stitch definition works with this cotton yarn (Rowan!)