Raw yarn colour



This mini sleeveless shift dress is fully fashioned and made on a vintage, manually operated knitting machine. I designed this as an easy to wear, everyday style that can be worn on its own in hot weather or layered with a t-shirt and a jacket on cooler days. It is casually knit in two straight pieces, front and back, without any finishing on the hems which allows the fabric to curl at the bottom. The skinny straps have an elastic inside to keep the dress in place. It’s fit is not-too-tight and not-too-loose.

The best part of this dress is it’s material - an organic cotton and linen blend made of fingering weight yarn. It’s the perfect combination of cotton’s softness and linen’s cooling effect. It can absorb a lot of moisture before appearing wet, so sweat marks don’t really turn up. The weight of the knit gives the dress structure and doesn’t hold a crease the same way woven linen does. It can be ironed but doesn’t really need it. With every wash and tumble dry, the dress gets softer. This knit fabric does not snag or tear easily; despite it’s delicate style it is a hardy little number. 

It can be ordered in raw yarn - meaning not dyed, at a lighter price. It is of a natural  light wheat shade. For the colour yarn dress, I hand dye each batch individually for the order. It is difficult to capture the exact colour in photos, but the blue is somewhere between a light denim and sky solour, with a sort of heathered fade. The linen in the blend has a subtle reflective quality which adds depth to the colour that I find more noticeable in person.  

60% Organic Cotton
40% Linen 

Machine wash warm, tumble dry. Iron on medium heat if desired.

TO ORDER: This dress will be made to your measurements and non-refundable, so please measure carefully. The measurements needed are:
- bust (largest part around breast/chest)
- hip (largest part around buttocks) 
- length (measure from top of shoulder to tip of fingers - where to strap begins to the bottom hem)
Please note that my knitting machine’s width dictates the size range I am able to make - this dress can be made up to a 48” circumference.