Crochet skills become indispensable for mothers who have daughters. Little girls always need something: blouses, hats, booties, sweaters. Especially young knitters are pleased with family celebrations, because this is an excellent occasion to show their good taste and creative abilities. Crocheted children’s dresses (you don’t have to look for patterns for a long time, many publications offer them) open up a wide scope for imagination.
In this article, we will consider the simplest and most affordable ways to make them yourself.
How to knit a dress
By the design of the upper part of the product, several dresses can be distinguished:
- with a round yoke;
- with a square yoke;
- without a yoke.
By the type of the lower edge of the product, they can be:
- with ruffle skirt;
- with a straight skirt.
In fact, there are no clear rules dictating what kind of children's dresses should be crocheted. Schemes and descriptions can be chosen to your taste, absolutely any, just like the model and pattern.
Products combining several techniques look interesting and original. For example, openwork or dense fabric crocheted with embroidery Irish or Romanian lace.
Knitted dresses for children with knitting patterns: model with ruffle skirt
It should be said that in order to get a children's dress crocheted (the scheme, description and model do not matter), it is necessary to perform a control sample. This will allow you to accurately calculate the size of the canvas, as well as to avoid blooming and dressing.
The model of a magnificent dress is quite simple: you need to tie the main part (in front and back), which then tie the ruffles. The base is made even or slightly widened down. The pattern for her will suit almost anyone, the choice of a craftswoman.
Base manufacture
Knitting starts from the bottom:
- The first part of the fabric (to the waist) is knitted with a sirloin net. Then it will be very convenient to attach ruffles to it.
- Further work continues, referring to the selected scheme.
- Having tied up the armholes to the line, perform symmetrical cuts on both sides.
- When the time comes to form the neck, first one side of the part is knitted with a shoulder, then the other.
- The back is done similarly. The neck can be left the same or slightly reduced.
- Details sew and tie the neck with armholes.
Fluffy skirt
For the manufacture of ruffles, the edge of the scheme of any openwork napkin is suitable.
Its use allows you to create multi-layered skirts and truly magnificent children's dresses crocheted. Diagrams and a description of the rim of the napkin may seem too narrow, but they can be supplemented with several rows of nets. It is worth placing them at the beginning of the ruffle pattern.
The first row of the border is imposed directly on the base part, between the loops of the sirloin net.
If desired, it is quite possible to make the ruffle canvases separately, and then sew to the base.
The extreme part of napkins is convenient because the principle of expansion is already laid in their schemes.
Coquette: types and methods of manufacture
Both round and square coquette fit from the neckline down. The principle of expansion is slightly different.
Round uniformly expand along the entire length of each row, they very decorate children's dresses with a crochet (patterns and descriptions of such coquets can be dense or openwork).
Square coquette expands strictly in four places and form a raglan sleeve.
A skirt is tied or sewn to the bottom of the coquette.
Crocheted baby dresses: diagrams and a description of the manufacture of a straight skirt
Strictly speaking, there are practically no straight skirts of children's dresses. At least a little, but they are expanded.
Conditionally straight skirt is knitted with a single piece of cloth in any direction. It can expand to the bottom by changing the number of columns along the edges of the parts. A popular way to expand using a pattern. This technique is used if the skirt is knitted in an even pattern.
If you need to avoid side seams, the extreme rows of napkins will come in handy again. These patterns can be arranged in stripes one after another.
Another effective way to expand the skirt is to gradually increase the gaps between the rapport patterns. For example, adding the number of air loops in the net or double crochet in the “bushes”. Thus, to the bottom the pattern will be larger.