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Baby Girl’s Dress – Free Vintage Crochet Pattern
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Download PDF instantly – Dress your little one in this sweet 1980s vintage crochet dress, worked in soft baby weight yarn with a 3.5mm hook. Featuring a delicate mesh-and-treble yoke pattern with eyelet ribbon ties, it comes in four sizes (3, 6, 12, and 18 months) for a neat, heirloom-style fit.
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Baby Girl’s Dress – 1980s Crochet Pattern: Instant PDF Download
Size: 3, 6, 12, 18 Months
There’s something special about a vintage crochet dress made just for the smallest member of the family. This 1980s baby crochet pattern combines an easy/beginner-friendly skirt in a lacy treble-stitch panel with an openwork yoke bodice, finished with a ribbon-tied neckline and short sleeves that keep little arms free to move. Worked up in sport/baby yarn patterns weight, it’s an ideal spring/summer project for a christening, baby shower gift, or a keepsake to pass down through the family.
Download free PDF: Baby Girl’s Dress
Design & Construction Details
Skill Level: Easy/Beginner.
Construction: Worked flat in separate pieces — a two-panel skirt joined at back bodice and front bodice, a yoke worked in a repeating treble/double crochet jacquard-style mesh, with underarm shaping and a back-opening finished with button loops.
Finished Measurements: Garment measures 16.5″ (18.5″, 20.5″, 21.5″) / 42 (47, 52, 54.5) cm around, fitting underarm 16″ (18″, 20″, 21″) / 40 (45, 50, 52.5) cm — Sizes A, B, C, D for 3, 6, 12, and 18 months.
Pattern Style: Written in standard UK crochet terms, with a full abbreviations guide included.
Stitches: Chain, double crochet, treble crochet, worked in a repeating yoke lace pattern; “Dec” (special decrease) as defined in the pattern.
Recommended Materials & Tools
Yarn: Baby/sport weight — see chart for exact ball counts by size (Patons 3 Ply Baby Wool or 3 Ply Featheresoft, or Patons 3 Ply Fairytale).
Substitute yarn: standard modern sport/baby weight yarn such as Debbie Bliss Eco Baby or Cascade Yarns Botanika.
Crochet Hook Size: 3.50mm (US size E/4) or size needed to obtain gauge.
Notions: 3 buttons, length of ribbon for the neckline tie.
Gauge: 24 sts and 22 rows = 4″ (10 cm) over yoke pattern.
This is a digitally restored PDF crochet pattern
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