Baby dress

That was my first baby dress, made from merino lace. I finished the front part:

 But because it was for a baby girl who was born few weeks ealier I realised it will be too big for her!

So I just crocheted upper part and here she is:

 And then I made second dress for her.

First I knitted the lower lace with purple merino lace. But the color was a bit too light and too transparent and you could not really see flower pattern, so I had to knit an other layer underneath it, a dark red one.

 Then I picked up the stitches on the side and knitted the upper part. She looks really beautiful in those strong colors!

 

After making some warm wrist-warmers there was some yarn left over, so here are 2 more dresses. They will fit to children around 6-9 monts old:

Kõigepealt tuli pitisline valge kleit väiksele vastsündinud tüdrukule. Kudusine kleidi esimese osa valmis. Kuna väike tüdruk sündis paar nädalat oodatust varem, siis sai see talle liiga suur... Heegeldasin serva ja ülaosa, leidsin poest kaunid pärli-nööbid ja valmis saigi.

Hiljem tuli veel teine kleit, sest ilm läks külmaks ja tuuliseks. Kudusin helelillast merino lõngast allserva pitsi. Kuid helelilla värv ei toonud esile lillelist mustrit ning tegin selle alla alumise kihi, tumepunase. Siis korjasin servast silmad üle ning kudusin ülaosa. Poest sain veel imeilusad punased kiisu-nööbid. Väike tüdruk näeb imearmas neis tugevates värvides välja!

Pärast randme-sooojendajate tegemist jäi ka lõnga üle ning sellest tuli veel 2 kleiti, vanuses 6-9 kuud.

Baby dresses

I started with lace knitted dress for Alice, who was born 4 months too early:

 I loved the buttons I found for that dress:

 And there was some yarn leftover from the "leaf and peacock scarf" and I made a narrow lace. Then I noticed that the lace is almost transparent and I cannot really see the flower pattern. So I made an other lair in dark red, so that you could see the pattern better. 

And the lace part was too small for something big (for grown-ups I mean), so I got some nice purple-black-red yarn to match it! 

 And I must say baby Alice looks much better in strong colors than in usual baby-girl pink...

 Here are red and cute kitten-buttons:

2 dresses

And then one of my friends asked me to knit 2 dresses for 2 daughters. 

One of the daughters is 4 years old, and she got this dress:

Here is the pattern:

 
The other daughter is 11 and her dress was about the same, just same yarn with different colors.

Sorry, I can`t remember the yarn details now!