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Knitted Baby Dress Pattern

October 3, 2015 Leave a Comment

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Today is the second day of our 31 Days of Knitted Gifts! Our previous two projects can be found here. This sweet knitted dress is perfect for fall. Just picture it paired with leggings and baby boots. Absolutely adorable! Oooh, and if you added stocking and gold shoes with a gold hair bow it would be perfect for Christmas!

Needle and yarn

Needle:

US 7 – 4.5 mm

Yarn:

Knit Picks Swish Worsted

Pattern: This free pattern can be found on Ravelry.com.

Notes:

Followed the listed pattern through row 27, doing seed stitch instead of ribbing between the leaves. On row 28 did 25 stitches in seed stitch, bound off 31, 50 seed stitch, bound of 31, 25 seed stitch (last stitch knit 2 together). Couple more rounds of seed stitch…then I knit 3 rounds in st st, one round of purl, and started Flora dress with 9 repeats of chart A. I knit one round then 3 rounds of seed stitch to finish.

Filed Under: Crafts & DIY, Gifts, Holidays Tagged With: Baby, Baby Showers, Crafts, DIY, Gifts, Knitting

Baby Apple Hat Pattern

October 3, 2015 Leave a Comment

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Today is the second day of our 31 Days of Knitted Gifts! To see our previous project, go here. This little apple hat is adorable for newborn photos or family fall pictures!

I love to see babies in hats! Well, babies are always adorable but when you put one in a hat they are overwhelmingly cute. So cute that women will have to make some sound when they see them. Either “awww”, or “oh my!” or the ever popular high pitch squeal. I hope this apple hat will bring your babies lots of compliments. Be sure to bookmark this tutorial to share with them when they ask where you got it…because trust me, your little one will be so cute, they’ll have to ask!

Needle and yarn

Needle:

US 4 – 3.5 mm

US 8 – 5.0 mm

Yarn:

Apple – Malabrigo Yarn Merino Worsted in Ravelry Red

Stem – Cascade Yarns Cascade 220® in Straw

Leaf – Malabrigo Yarn Merino Worsted in Lettuce

Pattern: Both patterns used in this project are from Ravelry.com and were free! The apple hat pattern can be found here and the leaf pattern here.

Notes:

I only own two 12” circular needles: size 4 and 8. I prefer these over DPN so I used the 4’s for the ribbing and 8’s for the rest. Switched to DPNs when I had to. Used a little scrap of cascade 220 for the stem and scrap of lettuce malabrigo for the leaf. This hat took less than 3 hours total to make. Even on size 8’s it seems tiny. I hope it fits her!

If you like this hat, please pin it so others can find it.

Filed Under: Crafts & DIY, Gifts Tagged With: Baby, Baby Showers, Gifts, Knitting

31 Days of Knitted Gifts

September 30, 2015 3 Comments

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This month I’ll be sharing a DIY knitted gift idea with all the details for making them. I hope you’ll follow along with me. {I’ll be posting the first one later ~~today after I wake up a bit.~~ tomorrow after I get some meds in me. I hate being sick, I’m sorry!}