I am a mom to 2 boys and no girls myself, so I understand your excitment about knitting a dress. ;-) The dress is really cute. I love the edging and the flower.

After lamenting that all my friends and cousins were having boys, (and knitting the same star sweater over and over again) there is now a bumper crop of baby girls in my life. Now, if I could get my act together and knit something with lace and ruffles in pink and get it out of my system!

The applique really sets it off--its just lovely. Girly but still sporty. I absolutely LOVE it. And I have a girl just the right age--and a cone of Elann denim. Sewing all that picot scares me though--seeing your picture makes it worth it. Thanks for sharing!

No, no, the picot is totally visible, and very, very cute.

Beautiful. Just girly enough. I really want to knit this for my daughter, but it would require adjustments that I'm not up to yet. I'll just have to find a littler girl to knit it for.

It's gorgeous!

absolutely adorable!

Very beautiful! I need little girls in my life too so that I have can knit things like this! Great job..

I have been considering making that dress for Eva, and now that I see it knit up, I am convinced. And I am going to steal your applique idea; it really makes the dress!

love it !
just finished one myself for my terrible two...

So cute!
I'm sitting here in my NBT! I LOVE it...pictures next week.

Oh, this is just adorable! The picots are perfect, and the applique is darling. My pregnant niece is hoping for a boy (she has 2 girls). Would it be bad of me to hope for another girl so I can knit this?

I love it

That is so cute! I love the flower too. Like you, I am grooving on little-girl knits these days!

I love how this turned out. The edging is just right and the applique finishes it off perfectly. Sweet!

very cute! I love the little flower too

Nice dress, I love the flower though, it makes the dress pop. :)

The picot is perfect! love it!

Absolutely adorable! I've been oh so tempted to try to knit a dress for my 2 yo daughter. You've convinced me I should give it a try. Oh, and if you are serious about needing to know more people with little girls, well, feel free to knit these up as often as you like. I'm certain people (ie me) would snatch them in a heartbeat. :)

It's so cute! I love the flower, great touch. Boys are great, but playing dress up with them just isn't the same ;)

It's perfect and the picot edging looks great just the way it is!

so cute! I saw the pattern in the book, but didn't really like it then... but now that I've seen yours, I just adore it!! Love the little flower ;)

Love the dress - just wondering when you say that you might make the picot one row longer on a second try, how would that be done? I'm trying to get my head around it, but wouldn't that be breaking the yarn at each picot? Aside from the confusion over that, you've done an excellent job - makes me wish my girls were young again!

here's a friend with a little girl (tee hee). please bring that to knitsmiths this week. i must touch the picot!!!! and see it close up. i want to compare it to the ms. bea's pattern that i was going to use for scout's dress.

Amy, the picot edge is done by picking up stitches, knitting a few rows, doing a picot turning row (usually some variation on *yo, K2tog*), knitting a few more rows, and binding off. The hem is folded over at the picot row and whipstitched to the inside of the dress. So when I say I'd make the picot a row longer, I'd be making those hems larger by doing another straight row of knitting before and after the turning row. Got it? :)

SUPER cute!

Maybe next time go with a picot bind-off, instead of the yo/k2tog hem thing. That way your bind off takes forever but less sewing! The latter is nice and flat, though, and hems are a good place for hiding ends. So it's a trade-off, of course.

I love the picot and the iron-on! It's so cute! :)

That is just about the cutest thing, ever. Going to have to pick up that book, since everyone I know is suddenly having baby girls. Wheeee...lots of girly knitting ahead! (note: I have two boys, hence the excitement ;-)

So adorable! I've been reading your blog since starting to knit in January. Your knits are so wonderfully inspiring to newbies like me.

OMG ... it is too cute! Too bad that a grown woman wearing this in adult size would just become laughable! :(

What an adorable little dress! I, too am the mother of boys (3 of them!) and I am always hoping that someone I know will have a girl. No luck yet. I'm still hopeful.

Love the dress. I know the feeling all my friends have boys. It's hard to knit for boys, especially as they get older.

my goodness, that is just adorable! i'm taking an applique class in a couple of weeks-- i can't wait. love the colour and the picot edging.

Love it, so cute! I was going to make a pinafore for my daughter this summer. The flower is a very nice touch.

SO CUTE. I think the picot edge is totally visible!

So cute! I wish my daughter was two again...

Very cute. The flower just sets it off to perfection.

That is just too cute! I love the flower.

I love that dress,its gorgeous. Why do they have such cute patterns for girls? I've got a son and I've only managed to knit him ONE thing because I just love knitting for girls!

I love it! It's my first time commenting, but I've been admiring for some time now and I had to de-lurk to tell you how cute this dress is. I think the picot is just right - frillier edging might look out of place with the denim.