Playtime Dress by Jane Burns

Made with Scheepjes Merino Soft, the cute and comfortable Playtime Dress, designed by Jane Burns, allows adventurous kids to move freely while they play! This dress is perfect for kids who also like to safe-keep little trinkets in their pockets! Available in 5 sizes, this pattern can be knitted for children from 0 to 3 years old.

To knit this dress you will need (depending on size) 6 to 11 balls of Scheepjes Merino Soft in 3 colours. We recommend that you use 3.25mm and 4mm (circular) needles. In the example featured in our photos, we used Scheepjes Merino Soft 605 Hogarth, 602 Raphaël, and 628 Botticelli.

Bottoni Italiani

It's all in the details! As this charming dress fastens at the shoulders, why not embellish them with some bright and cheerful buttons? We used 6 Bottoni Italiani buttons (size 17.5mm). These sturdy Italian-made buttons are available in 6 sizes, from 20" (12.5mm) to 40" (25mm) and in an extensive range of colours: 42 in total! The buttons are colourfast and washable to 60 degrees Celsius. Size 40 (coat size) is available in black, marine and dark brown.

The YARN The After Party booklets are fun to sell! But have you also considered using them promotionally? How about offering them as a gift to your customers alongside the purchase of Scheepjes yarns? Recommended retail price: € 1.- / £ 1,-.

All the images from this issue of YARN The After Party, as well as our previous issues, can be downloaded via the link below. 

About the designer

Jane Burns loves creating accessible designs and working with beautiful yarns in her projects. Her belief is that crafting should be a relaxing past-time, and strives to create projects that are both quirky, yet suitable for a range of crocheters and knitters from beginner to advanced. She has had patterns published in The Knitter, Let’s Knit, and Knit Now magazines, to name a few, as well as in previous issues of Scheepjes YARN The After Party - which you may remember - the Dino Hunter Sweater and the Sunshine Dress.