The Red Dress
Finished
August 14, 2014
December 23, 2014

The Red Dress

Project info
Havar by Kessa Tay Anlin
Knitting
Dress
me
37" hips, 24" waist, 30" bust
Needles & yarn
US 6 - 4.0 mm
Cascade Yarns ® 220 Superwash®
5 skeins
139088
Red
Notes

Measurements: hips 38”, waist 26”, bust 33”; ~8” between all of them. Starting with middle size, decreasing to smallest size, increasing to second smallest size. WOO LET’S DO THIS

I have 56 rows to go from 96 sts in the front and 100 in the back to 76 and 64 respectively. That means I’ll need to decrease 10 times in the front, so every 4 rows 5 times and every other row 5 times, and 18 times in the back - 9 and 9 in the two locations, so PBD as patterned for middle and SBD I’ll just start two repeats early and go an extra two.

Because I don’t trust myself to actually count properly, instead of casting on the appropriate number of stitches for the pocket backing and then sewing it on later, I just picked up stitches from the backing and am knitting directly up from the back of the cable section. I was still off by one but I’ll throw a random decrease in the middle.


Decrease results: 52 pocket flap stitches. 76 front stitches. 62 back stitches. Fits pretty well, as far as I can tell!

Will need to k 12, join pocket, k12 to have it centered.


At back of neck, bound off a grand total of 4 stitches. No, I didn’t forget a second digit. Three-needle BO for shoulders because I didn’t feel like grafting.

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by Cascade Yarns ®
Worsted
100% Wool
220 yards / 100 grams

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  • Originally queued: December 6, 2013
  • Project created: August 14, 2014
  • Finished: December 26, 2014
  • Updated: May 11, 2015
  • Progress updates: 7 updates