​Knit Summer Dress with Cables

You’ll need:

500; 550; 600g of 00% cotton yarn (165m/50g);

Straight knitting needles 5;

Circle knitting needles 4,5 with short fishing line.

Size: S; M; L.

Used Patterns

Wrong side: make with knitting needles 5. In right-side rows – purls, in wrong-side rows – knit sts;

Rib: make with straight knitting needles due to the scheme, on which only right-side rows are stated. Make wrong-side rows due to the ornament. Repeat 1^st-12^th rows in height.

Cable: make with straight knitting needles due to the scheme, on which only right-side rows are stated. Make wrong-side rows due to the ornament. Repeat 1^st-12^th rows in height.

Stitches control: wrong side: 23 sts x 30 rows = 10 x 10 cm.

Instructions

Back

Cast on 180; 190; 200 sts and start work due to the following description: 1 selvedge st, 35; 40; 45 sts – wrong side, 3 pattern repeats of rib, 35; 40; 45 sts – wrong side, 1 selvedge st.

After knitting 146 rows, you’ll get 114; 124; 134 sts. Continue work due to the following description: 1 selvedge st, 35; 40; 45 sts – wrong side, 3 pattern repeats of cable, 35; 40; 45 sts – wrong side, 1 selvedge st.

At 60; 59; 58 cm from the 1^st row, bind off 3 sts x 1 from both sides, 2 sts x 2, 1 st x 7. Then, decrease 1 st x 2 in every 4^th row. There are 82; 92; 102 sts left.

Starting at 76 cm height, make neck-hole. Bind off the central 42; 50; 58 sts, then, bind off 4 sts x 1 in every 2^nd row and 1 st x 3 along the forming side.

At 80 cm height, finish your work and bind off the rest sts.

Front

Make in the same way, as back. The only difference is deeper neck-hole. For this, bind off the central 26; 34; 42 sts at 67 cm height. Then, for smooth rounding, bind off 5 sts x 1, 3 sts x 1, 2 sts x 1, 1 st x 4 in every 2^nd row along the forming side. Then, bind off 1 st x 3 in every 4h row.

Knit the front part to the needed size, the same, as back. Finish work and bind off the rest sts.

Assembly

Make all the seams.

Lift 132; 136; 140 sts (= 60; 62; 64 sts of back + 72; 74; 76 sts of front) with circle knitting needles 4,5 along the neck-hole line. Make 1 row of purls and bind off all purls.

Lift 91; 94; 97 sts along the edge of each arm-hole. Make 1 row of purls and bind off all purls.