Fey Striped Dress - Knitting Pattern for Kids in Debbie Bliss Baby Cashmerino

Fey Striped Dress – Knitting Pattern for Kids by Debbie Bliss

The Fey Striped Dress is a charming children's knitting pattern designed by Debbie Bliss, worked in her signature Baby Cashmerino yarn. This downloadable PDF pattern produces a beautifully striped dress for kids, combining classic construction with a playful, colourful aesthetic that makes it a wardrobe staple for little ones. Rated as an intermediate difficulty project, it is well suited to knitters who are comfortable with basic shaping and are ready to develop their skills further.

About the Garment

The Fey Striped Dress is a knitted dress designed for children, featuring a striped colourwork design achieved through straightforward colour changes rather than complex intarsia or Fair Isle techniques. The stripe pattern gives the garment a fresh, modern look while keeping the knitting process accessible to intermediate-level crafters. The silhouette is designed to be comfortable and wearable, reflecting Debbie Bliss's well-known approach to practical yet stylish children's knitwear.

Yarn and Materials

• Yarn: Debbie Bliss Baby Cashmerino – a luxuriously soft sport weight yarn blended from merino wool, microfibre, and cashmere, making it ideal for children's garments due to its gentle feel against delicate skin.
• The sport weight construction ensures the finished dress has a fine, elegant drape appropriate for a children's dress silhouette.
• Multiple colours of Baby Cashmerino are required to achieve the stripe sequence specified in the pattern.
• Knitting needles appropriate for sport weight yarn are used; the pattern specifies the correct needle size within the PDF to achieve the stated tension/gauge.

Techniques Used

• Stripe knitting: Colour changes are worked at regular intervals to create the signature striped design. Knitters will learn to carry or cut yarn neatly between colour changes.
• Casting on and casting off (binding on and binding off): Standard cast-on methods are used to form the foundation rows, and stitches are cast off (bound off) to finish edges securely and prevent unravelling.
• Casting off in ribbing: Where ribbed sections are present, stitches are cast off while maintaining the knit-and-purl rib pattern for a neat, elastic finish.
• Increasing: Stitches are added using methods such as kfb (knit into the front and back of a stitch) to shape the garment.
• Decreasing: Stitch counts are reduced using techniques such as k2tog (knit two together) and p2tog (purl two together) to create shaping at key points of the dress.
• Garter stitch: Sections worked by knitting every row produce a ridged, reversible fabric texture used as a design or structural element within the pattern.
• Ribbing: A combination of knit and purl stitches worked in sequence creates stretchy ribbed bands, typically used at cuffs, hems, or necklines for a tidy, fitted finish.

Stitches Used

• Knit stitch (k) – the foundational stitch used throughout the garment.
• Purl stitch (p) – worked in combination with knit stitches to create texture and ribbing.
• Kfb – knit into the front and back of a stitch, a simple increase technique.
• K2tog – knit two stitches together, a right-leaning decrease.
• P2tog – purl two stitches together, used for decreasing on purl rows.
• Garter stitch – all rows knitted, creating a textured horizontal ridge fabric.
• Rib stitch – alternating knit and purl stitches in a set pattern to create an elastic, structured band.

Pattern Format and Terminology

The Fey Striped Dress pattern is written using UK knitting terminology