Sjöjungfru

The dress is knitted seamlessly from the top down. Starting with the straps made from 3 i-cords that are braided. The braids are continuous and run through the whole dress ending at the hem. An i-cord bind off is used on the hem and arm holes to prevent curling, and the hem cables are attached to the i-cord bind off by knitting.

I originally chose the purple yarn by Pipa Yarns  because I absolutely fell in love with it the moment I saw it! I immediately had a vision appear to me. It was of my grandma, in her youth dancing in this dress in the rain, in a field of meadow buttercups and bluebells, the flowers of my childhood. Lilac, the color of the evil witch mermaid Ursula in The Little Mermaid children's book and the cables that looks like tentacles, but I just couldn't name this pattern that, on the count of she being evil, conniving b*tch, without any feeling of comradery.