Dress for Martha the Bear

Free knitting tutorial for a dress for Martha the Bear by Svetlana Proskuryakova @proskuryakova_knits.

With this pattern, you can knit a dress for a toy. Any cotton blend yarn will work for the outfit: YarnArt Jeans, Alize Cotton Gold, Gazzal Baby Cotton, or a similar yarn. If you like, you can decorate the dress with buttons, patches, or rhinestones.

This dress fits a 10-inch (25 cm) toy.

Materials and Tools

• YarnArt Jeans yarn in color 76, turquoise
• 3 mm knitting needles
• 2 buttons
• Scissors

Abbreviations

• K - knit
• P - purl
• inc - increase with a twisted stitch (or YO)
• (...) x n - repeat n times

Knitted Dress for Martha the Bear Pattern

Martha the Bear crochet pattern.

Edge stitches are included in the total stitch count.

Cast on 26 sts.

Row 1. K4, inc, K1, inc, K4, inc, K1, inc, K6, inc, K1, inc, K4, inc, K1, inc, K4
Row 2. Purl all sts
Row 3. K2, YO, k2tog, K1, inc, K1, inc, K6, inc, K1, inc, K8, inc, K1, inc, K6, inc, K1, inc, K5
Row 4. Purl all sts
Row 5. K6, inc, K1, inc, K8, inc, K1, inc, K10, inc, K1, inc, K8, inc, K1, inc, K6
Row 6. Purl all sts
Row 7. K7, inc, K1, inc, K10, inc, K1, inc, K12, inc, K1, inc, K10, inc, K1, inc, K7
Row 8. Purl all sts
Row 9. K9, bind off 12 sts, K16, bind off 12 sts, K9
Row 10. P9, cast on 5 sts, P16, cast on 5 sts, P9 (44)
Row 11. K7, (inc, K6) x 6, K1 (50)
Row 12. P50
Row 13. K2, YO, k2tog, K46
Rows 14-16. Work as established (4 rows)
Row 17. (K1, inc) x 50 (100)
Row 18. Purl all sts
Rows 19-26. Work as established
Row 27. (K5, YO) x 19, K5
Rows 28-31. Work as established

Bind off all stitches. Sew on the buttons.