This is the Little Sister's Dress by Tora Frøseth. She is one of my favorite clothing designers for little people (babies, toddlers and small children). I love her pattern, Angle, and will be hopefully finishing that in the next couple of weeks.
This dress is one of her free pattern offerings. It features a familiar welting motif around the bodice before joining in the round and starting the stockinette body. I really wanted to make at least one rainbow themed thing for our baby.
Rainbows. I like them, but I also like how some ultra-conservatives seem to think that rainbows and rainbow patterned things turn people gay. If that was all it took, then the human race would have died out a long time ago.
I figured that if I was going to do a rainbow-striped dress that I needed cloud buttons. I bought these buttons from Etsy seller, Pieceful Design. Shipping was super fast, but it took me a day or two to get around to sewing them on.
All and all, this is a wonderful project. It is super quick. It took me only a week to do all of the knitting, weaving in the ends and blocking. If I had buttons I wanted to use on hand, then I would have finished that same day.
The angle is a little funny, but I wanted a close up of the buttons. The toggles are done with just a little bit of crochet. Nothing to worry about there. I just did the vertical opening for the neck with a bit of single crochet and then made a pair of chain loops. It doesn't really show up with the buttons there, so it doesn't have to be good crochet. Just adequate.
Oh, and this is the 12 month size. We'll see if it will fit our baby (who is currently Schrödinger's gender) at some point close to 12 months or if it will be more like one of my friends whose baby blew past the newborn sizes so fast that the baby clothes I made were put on once and then no more.
Yeah, I'm knitting out in sizes, because I don't believe a lot of it will fit for very long otherwise. Those with children can tell me if I am being sensible or not.
Next time, I hope to have a complete set of baby clothes OR a blanket done. We'll see!
