Layette to fit a 2” baby doll for the period 1800 to 1880.
Instructions for dress, nappy, bootees, bonnet, and bib, shawl, hood, and mittens.

Materials: Size 20 knitting needles, 2/16 (1ply) cotton, 5 buttons, 2mm silk ribbon and 2 stitch holders.

Designed from contemporary patterns, photographs, and fashion plates.

Enlightened thinking was changing babies dress from swaddling to less restrictive clothing. Babies of this period would wear a binder, a shirt made of fine cotton with flaps at front and back to fold over the neck of the barrow coat. A barrow coat made of flannel sometimes called a whittle, a petticoat, a low necked short sleeved dress, bootees, bonnet, shawl, and bib.

Pattern designed by Lesley Roberts
Copyright © Nicola Smith 2018
The Knitting Lady