Eden's Eve
Eden’s Eve is a simple, classic styled A-line dress with a modern construction. Throw in a few subtle styling details and a couple of unique techniques, and you have a fun knit you’ll want to explore again and again. This pattern provides the palette of temptation to help you on your creative way.
Construction:
This is a seamless garment, knit circularly from the top down.
What sets this dress apart is the particular attention paid to the finishing details; the depth of the armholes, good chest coverage, the neatened joins, details for working jogless garter stitch, such subtleties combine to give the finished garment a neater finished look.
Pattern includes a number of options for further adaption of the dress.
Sizing:
Finished chest measurement:
15-21: 15/38 (16/40.5, 17/43, 18/45.5) [19/48, 20/51, 21/53.5]
22-28: 22/56 (23/58.5, 24/61, 25/63.5) [26/66, 27/68.5, 28/71]
inches/cms
This garment is designed to be slim fitting with no ease.
Garment is shown in the 21” size knit to a 5 year length on a 5 year old with a 21” chest.
Skill Level:
Intermediate
Techniques used:
Knit and purl
Increasing and decreasing
Jogless garter
Working in the round on circular needles
Creating a pocket (optional)
Working jogless stripes (optional)
Working from a chart (optional)
Yarn Requirements:
• The Wool Company Utiku Multi 8ply (100% wool; 414yd379m/200g) − 1(1,1, 1) 1, 1, 1 1 (2, 2, 2) [2, 2, 2] skeins
• OR Anchor Magicline (100% cotton; 76yd69m/50g) − 4 (4, 4, 5) 5, 5, 5 6 (6, 7, 7) [8, 9, 10] balls
• OR DK/8ply, sport/5ply or fingering/4ply weight wool or cotton yarns that knits up at the required tension.
15–21: 265/245 (285/260, 300/275, 320/295) [335/310, 355/325, 370/340]
22–28: 400/370 (450/410, 500/460, 550/505) [600/550, 650/600, 700/640]
yards/metres approximately.
Original yarns are a worsted spun wool and a worsted spun mercerised cotton.
Yardage is approximate and may vary between knitters and yarn types and weights.
