Crochet Pattern for a Colorful Child’s Dress
You'll Need:
Drops Paris Cottom (aran) yarn in red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple colors;
Crochet hook 4.5 mm.
Size:
2-3 (3-5, 6-8) years.
Note
The yarn colors specified in this pattern are for the age 3-5 dress pictured (red at the top). The age 6-8 dress was made with colors reversed.
The age 2-3 dress was created by doing half the required number of rows in the bright colors and the remaining rows in white.Instructions
Red
Row 1 - 74 (78, 78) fsc. Join to the first fsc with a ss. (Ensure it fits over the child's head)
Row 2 - Ch3 (always counts as dc), dc into next 9 (9, 9) st, dc-ch2-dc in next st, dc into next 17 (18, 18) st, dc-ch2-dc, dc into next 18 (19, 19) st, dc-ch2-dc, dc into next 17 (18, 18) st, dc-ch2-dc, dc into next 8 (9, 9) st. Ss to top of ch3.
Row 3 - Ch3, dc into each st, dc-ch2-dc in each ch2 sp.
Repeat Row 3: 4 (4, 7) more times.
Fasten off.
Join orange yarn in the center of the back of the dress.
Orange
Row 1 - Working in BLO for the entire row. Ch3 to start, then dc in each stitch until 2 stitches before the first ch2 sp. In the stitch before the ch2 sp: yarn over and insert hook into the st and also through the stitch after the 2nd ch2 sp, then finish your dc stitch... this creates a sleeve opening. Dc in each dc until 2 st before the 3rd ch2 sp, and work another dc through both the st before the 3rd ch2 sp and the st after the 4th ch2 sp to create the 2nd sleeve opening. Dc to the end.
Row 2 - Ch3 to start, 1 dc in the same st as ch3, then 2 dc in each stitch around.
Row 3 - Ch3 to start, then 1 dc in each stitch.
Repeat Row 3: 3 (3, 5) more times. Fasten off. Join yellow yarn in the center of the back of the dress.
Yellow
Row 1 - Work in BLO. Ch3 to start, then 1 dc in each st.
Row 2 - Ch3 to start, then 1 dc in each st.
Repeat Row 2: 4 (4, 6) more times. Fasten off.
Repeat ‘Yellow’ Rows for green, blue & purple yarn, or change color patterns as desired.