About

This Parisian-inspired knit dress design allows you to craft a stunning long sleeve knitted dress that is modern and street style ready. This knitting pattern has buttons down the side and a crossover belt to tie up, making it a customisable fit.

The Wrap It Up Dress is worked from the top down, beginning with the back neck and shoulders and then working down to the armholes. The stitches for the sleeves are placed on hold whilst the body is shaped down to the hem. Sleeves are picked up and worked in the round down to the wrist before finishing with the i-cord. The dress has made to measure elements from the waist to accomodate each knitters desired wrap depth and button placement.

Skill Level Intermediate Level

Techniques

This pattern uses techniques such as knit, purl, increases and decreases, top-down knitting, seamless knitting, i-cord edges, working buttonholes, 3 stitch I-cord.

Gauge

17 sts and 22 rows = 4 inches /10 cm in stockinette st, on , blocked.

Materials 

Suggested Needles

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Suggested Yarn

Yarn Sample made in size XS.

(70% Baby Alpaca, 7% Merino, 23 % Recycled Nylon, 130 m/142 yds, 50g) in Blonde Beige.

8 (10) 11 (13) 14 (16) 17 (18) skeins required.

Yarn Alternatives

Notions

• to weave in ends. 
• 5-6 buttons,  (You can choose larger buttons depending on preference) 
• to cut yarn.