Blue Heirloom Dress by Crochet Fantasy

Blue Heirloom Dress

Crochet
October 1985
DMC Cebelia #3
Lace ?
5 stitches and 2.5 rows = 1 inch
in double crochet (US)
3.5 mm (E)
1366 yards (1249 m)
2T-3T
English

Additional Materials - Two cotton balls (for making buttons)

Color - Pattern calls for 6-50gm balls of blue and 1-50gm ball of peach.

Yarns - Both recommended yarns have been discontinued. A lace weight yarn or size 3 crochet thread could be substituted.

Publisher - “The Heirloom Baby Dresses ….date from the turn-of the-century and were found in an antiques shop on Portobello Road in London. The originals are silk, but reproductions would be far more practical for today’s babies when worked in colorful, colorfast (and, therefore, washable) crochet cotton.”