Skotta — Red Children’s Sleeveless Butterfly Dress Knitting Kit

Skotta — Védís Jónsdóttir’s children’s dress from Ístex’s Lopi 27, in its red version: a sleeveless A-line dress in crimson red Léttlopi, with a deep white eyelet-rib hem and a black band of white and mimosa butterflies under the chest. The butterflies’ bodies and antennae are embroidered after the knitting, and the left shoulder closes with small buttons. It is the matching dress to the Fiðrildaslóð butterfly cardigan, which lies beside it in the photo. The pattern’s sun yellow (1411) is no longer made; this kit has 1703 mimosa in its place. The “golden yarn” the pattern uses to embroider the butterflies’ bodies has no code or amount and is not included.

Included

• Icelandic Léttlopi wool yarn — yarn for the largest size is included, so every size is covered
• Knitting pattern in English (PDF) — emailed right after purchase
• ADDI knitting needles — only if you choose the kit with needles

Léttlopi — 50 g balls · ages 2 (3 4 6 8) years
A 9434 Crimson Red — 3 (4 4 5 5)
B 0059 Black — 1 (1 1 1 1)
C 1703 Mimosa (in place of 1411 sun yellow) — 1 (1 1 1 1)
D 0051 White — 1 (1 1 1 1)

Sizes

Gauge
18 sts × 24 rows = 10 cm (4″) in stocking stitch on 4.5 mm needles.

Needles used in the pattern (included when you choose the kit with needles)
4.5 mm (US 7) circular needles, 40 and 60 cm — the skirt is knitted in the round, the front and back of the bodice back and forth

Not included
A 3.5 mm crochet hook for the edging and buttonholes, 3–4 small buttons for the shoulder (the pattern gives no size), 6 stitch markers, a tapestry needle for the embroidery and the shoulder, and the “golden yarn” the pattern asks for to embroider the butterflies’ bodies (it gives no code or amount).

How it is knitted
The skirt is knitted in the round from the hem up on the 60 cm circular. It starts with a deep border of single eyelet rib in white — P2, K3, with a small hole in each K3 rib every other round. Then comes stocking stitch in crimson red: the skirt is divided into six panels with markers and narrowed at each marker three times, then by 4 stitches more at the sides — from 140–180 stitches at the hem to 100–140 at the chest. Just under the chest comes an 11-round band of butterflies on black, with white upper wings and mimosa lower wings, never more than two colours in a round, and then 3 rounds in crimson red, which goes on for the bodice and the crochet edging. The front and back are knitted separately, back and forth, with shaped armholes and a round neck. The right shoulder is joined and the left one left open. Two rounds of single crochet edge the armholes and neck, with 3–4 buttonholes on the front of the left shoulder, and the butterflies’ bodies and antennae are embroidered last.

Design: Védís Jónsdóttir — pattern from Lopi No. 27 (no. 2), Ístex.

Genuine Ístex lopi — the same wool Icelanders knit with, spun in Iceland from the fleece of Icelandic sheep. No substitutes.

Care of the finished garment — air out between wears; hand wash cool and dry flat. Full care guide

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