Crochet Baby Frock 10

Crochet Frock:

Fig 1

Hi friends,

In USA gender of the baby is known after 22 weeks after inception, so when  I knew that my daughter will be blessed by baby girl, I decided to knit / crochet a frock (as I had never knitted it till then). When I searched for pattern on internet, I saw this frock (Fig 2),  which I liked very much but it's pattern was not given. It was by the name "Soft Mint Dress" from "Things from Strings". It was for sell. I saw the photo of this frock, I knew that I can make the body and skirt portion (may be with different design) but those puff sleeves seemed to be difficult. Then I saw similar type of Puff sleeves in one Marathi book on crochet and they were really wonderful.

क्रोशाचे विणकाम, प्रतिमा काळे 

"Crochet work" by Pratima Kale.

Fig 2

So I started to crochet this frock for my grand daughter in 2011.  I chose fan design (famous in crochet) for the Skirt part and go on increasing the width of the fan by increasing number of dcs. I liked the puff sleeves  very much. The frock was perfect in fitting. A little bit adjustment could be done by the sateen ribbon passed through the dc row at the end of white body part.

Materials: Oswal yarn carrot colour (200 gm) and white colour (100 gm), crochet hook 3 mm, matching sateen ribbon, two press buttons, tapestry needle.

Body part: Start with 85 chains. First and last 5 are supposed to be for Button band. Double crochet on each stitch except at corner where there is chain 2 in between two dcs.

Skirt pattern: Fan design is selected for skirt portion. I found it again in the above Marathi book but due to copy right problem I cannot explain it here but if some of my friend wants to make such skirt design, this video by Tejiendode Corazon will be useful,

I would like to say thanks to Tejiendode Corazon for this video.
I think you like this cute frock.