Crochet Baby Frock 20

Beautiful Baby Dress:

Fig 1

Hi friends,

I made this cute crochet baby dress (fig 1) for the granddaughter of my close friend. It is yoke type seamless dress. It fits for 1 year baby.

I used Vardhamaan 4 ply wool, white and pink colors and 3.25 mm crochet hook.

To start with make 67 chains with white yarn.

Row 1: (RS) Single crochet (sc)1 in each chain (ch) starting from second (66 sts)

R2: (WS) ch 1 turn, sc 1 in each st.

R3: ch 1 turn, sc 1 in each of the first 3 sts, ch2, skip 1 st make sc 1 in the next st, (buttonhole made) sc 1 in each of the next st till end. (Fig 2)

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 R4: INCREASE ROW: ch 1 turn, sc 1 in each of the next 7 (5 for button band+2) sts, ( sc 2 in next st, sc 1 in each of next 2 sts) repeat till the last 5 sts (for buttonhole band), sc 1 in each of these 5 sts. (84 st)

R5: ch 1 turn, sc 1 in each st till end. (fig 3)

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COLOR CHANGE ROW: You can refer the video below for joining the yarn in crochet work,

R6: (WS), ch 1 turn, hdc1 in each of the 5 sts with white yarn, join pink yarn, hdc 1 in each st till last 5 sts remain, join second white yarn ball and make hdc 1 in each of last 5 sts by white yarn. (Fig 4)

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R7: ch 1 turn, sc 1 in each of first 5 sts with white yarn, join pink, work back loop single crochet (blsc) 1 in each of the next st till last 5 sts remain by pink yarn, sc 1 in each of last 5 sts by white. (fig 5)

Repeat rows 2 to 7 two more times. Rows 19 worked out. See fig 6.

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After Row 10 and after 16^th row which will be increase rows, your number of sts will be 108 and 140 respectively.

Then divide 140 sts in five parts as follows and place markers accordingly,

140= 23 front + 27 sleeve+ 40 back+ 27 sleeve+ 23 front part.

Now we shall work only two front parts and back also we add 3 chains as under arm increase on both sides that is we have 23+3+40+3+23= 92 sts

R20: INCREASE ROW: As R4. Now total stitches will be 119. Fig 7. Now for the bottom part of the sweater we are working Fan’s stitch for which we need, multiple of 6 plus 1 sts (so that symmetry on both sides of bands should be maintained) and here we have 119-10 sts of button band and buttonhole band that is 109 sts which are perfectly as we need because 109 = 18x6+1. But this fan’s stitch should be started from WS so one more row I worked as follows,

R21: (RS) ch3 count and first double crochet (dc) turn and dc 1 in each st till end. Fig 8.

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R22: (WS) ch 2 turn (not considered as first dc), dc 1 in each of the 5 sts, dc 1 in next st, [ch2, skip 2 sts, sc1 in next st, ch 2, skip 2 sts, dc 1 in next st] repeat till last 5 sts, dc 1 in each of these 5 sts. Fig 9.

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R23: (RS) ch 1 turn, (dc 5 in the sc 1 st of previous row, join to the dc stitch of the previous row by sc) repeat till last 5 sts remain, dc 1 in each of these 5 sts. Fig 10, 11.

R24: (WS) ch 5 turn, (sc 1 on the third dc (out of 5 of fan) of previous row, ch 2, dc 1 on the sc 1 of the previous row) repeat till last 5 sts remain, dc 1 on each of these 5 sts 

Repeat row 23 and 24 till the total height if 11”. Fig 12. 

End with row 24. 

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Then we shall work border. (See fig 13)

R1 of border: (RS) ch 1 turn, sc 1 on each of sc and dc of previous row and sc 2 in each of ch-2 gap

R2: (WS) As per row 6 of yoke with white and pink both colors.

R3: As per R7 of yoke (with white and pink).

R4: ch 1 turn sc 1 on each st,

R5: As R4 above.

R6: As per row 6 of yoke with white and pink both colors.

R7: As per R7 of yoke (with white and pink). See fig 14.

My beautiful pink and white sweater is ready.

If you need some help, you can watch this video with English subtitles,

ETC: Enjoy the Creativity