Best Dress for Baby by The Sunday Herald

Best Dress for Baby

Knitting
June 1949
Light Fingering ?
8 stitches = 1 inch
US 2 - 2.75 mm
US 3 - 3.25 mm
English
This pattern is available for free.

WHEN cool breezes blow, baby will still be warm in this dainty knitted frock with an attractively patterned bodice and puff sleeves. The skirt falls softly from the ribbon trimming at the yoke, and the bodice has a square neckline fastening with tiny pearl buttons on the shoulders.

MATERIALS: 4oz Paton’s Beehive baby wool, “Patonised” shrink resist finish; 1 pair each Nos. 10 and 12 knitting needles; crochet hook.

MEASUREMENTS: Length from top of shoulder, 15½in; width all round at under-arm, 19in; length of sleeve from underarm, 2in.