A little dress for a little girl

I finally finished my first knitted garment…a little dress for BabyS.

I fell totally in love with these two little dresses by Pickles

Dress 1	Dress 2
Pictures borrowed from the Pickles website
Link to pattern: http://www.pickles.no/en-liten-finkjole/	Link to pattern: http://www.pickles.no/enkel-tunika/

Well looking at the knitting patterns I realized that “dress 1” was too difficult for this inexperienced knitter. Well “dress 2” is knitted with a more coarse yarn than I wanted to knit with. In conclusion, I wanted to knit a dress that had elements from both. With both patterns at hand I started…hoping for the best.

While I was knitting the dress I got even more inspired when I came across this blog post. Why not add something extra?? Adding “a little heart” can’t be that difficult…

 
a few s for inspiration

And here’s the result!

 

not too bad for my first attempt at a garment if I do say so myself…

A few things I learned during this project:
- Always jot down how far you’ve come – you never know when BabyS suddenly will require all your attention
- Don’t knit in poor lighting – chances of knitting something wrong is way bigger
- If in doubt about a knitting technique, check out these videos