Children's Knit Dresses

Ingredients

• four skeins of the very best Germantown yarn
• one skein two shades darker than the others
• one two shades darker still than that
• two needles about twelve inches long

Method

1. 1

   Cast on 320 stitches of the darkest shade; knit the first row plain across, seam all the second row, knit plain the third.

2. 2

   The pearl side is the right side.

3. 3

   For the waist, cast on 170 stitches, knit eight scollops deep of one color, then knit forty stitches, bind off the next ten, knit seventy, bind off ten, knit forty.

4. 4

   Finish all round with a crocheted edge.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The household (of the Detroit free press) (1886) by Goff, May Perrin,, page 191. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

CHILDREN'S KNIT DRESSES. For a child three or four years old, buy four skeins of the very best Germantown yarn (it is as soft as zephyr and wears better) ; have one skein two shades darker than the others, and one two shades darker still than that — Nos. 4, 6 and 8 of scarlet make a handsome one. Have two needles about twelve inches long

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.