Mary Dress

The Mary Dress is our Christmas dress 2021. The dress features a wide skirt in a beautiful vertical lace pattern and a yoke in stockinette stitch. The lace pattern from the skirt also appears at the bottom of the sleeves.
The dress is worked bottom up in the round. The beginning of skirt and sleeves are worked in garter stitch and then in an edge pattern before the dominant lace pattern is begun.bThe yoke is worked with raglan decreases.
Sizes 6-9 months, 12-18 months and 2 years are finished with a slit at one of the raglan decreases.

Sizes: 6-9 and 12-18 months, 2, 4 and 6 years old
Finished measurements: Circumference at bust: approx. 52 (60, 66, 70, 76) cm [201⁄2 (231⁄2, 26, 271⁄2, 30)]"; length from shoulder to edge: approx. 46 (50, 54, 62, 72) cm [18 (193⁄4, 211⁄4, 241⁄2, 281⁄4)]"; sleeve length from underarm to cuff: approx. 15 (17, 19, 22, 25) cm [6 (63⁄4, 71⁄2, 83⁄4, 93⁄4)]";
Yarn: 1 strand of Knitting for Olive Merino or Knitting for Olive Cotton Merino or Knitting for Olive Pure Silk (250 m [273 yd] / 50 g [1.8 oz]), fingering-weight yarn, 3 (3, 4, 5, 6) balls
Sample is in Merino - Marzipan colorway
Needles: 2.5 mm / US1.5 and 3 mm / US2.5 circular needles and 2.5 mm / US1.5 and 3 mm / US2.5 double- pointed needles in size to obtain gauge
Gauge: 28 sts and 38 rows = 10 cm [4"] in stockinette stitch with 3 mm / US2.5 needles
Notions: Stitch markers, waste yarn or stitch holders, tapestry needle