Meet Plain Jane, the Sweater Dress!

The simple and sweet Plain Jane Sweater is now available in a sweater dress

Simple sweaters are my favorite. There’s something about subtle lines and simple shapes that enhance your stitches for a stunning project. This new pattern is no different. The Plain Jane Sweater Dress is a knitting pattern that builds upon the sweater of the same name.

I’ve used the same yoke and sleeves, but added two additional increase sections. The body of the sweater is knit longer to create the dress shape. The end result is a beautiful little dress.

Get the Pattern from Ravelry Here.

View the original Plain Jane Sweater Post here.

What does this pattern call for?

Yarn:

To knit any of the three sizes 720-1080 yards of worsted weight yarn.

For the dress pictured, I used 5 skeins or about 900 yards of Premier Worsted Weight Yarn in their Everyday Heathers. This is a medium sized dress. I’m between a size 6 to 8 in most clothing.

This is an anti-pilling yarn. That means, any time I wash this sweater dress, any pilling will just wash away. Yup, no more taking scissors, a razor, or any anti-fuzz thing to your knitting projects!

Needles:

US Size 9 or 5.5m circular knitting needles. I used a smaller 16 inch to knit the sweater dress, but it was using KnitPicks Interchangeable needles. This allowed me to transfer my stitches to a longer needle and try on the dress at various points in the project.

Other tools:

Stitch holders (or waste yarn), 4-5 stitch markers, tapestry needle for weaving in the ends.

Why I love this Sweater Dress Pattern:

There are more complicated patterns, more intricate designs out there. But when you find a fun yarn that you love and you want to really show it off, this is a great pattern. The easy to follow pattern with simple knitting skills and techniques mean that this is a fun project to knit. You can do it in the park, in front of the TV knitflixing, etc. And you can do it without generally running the risk of making a mistake in the pattern,

Although, that said, I did knit one of these sleeves longer than the other. Which meant that I had to frog a few rounds.

Over the years, I’ve thought about adding something to this pattern. I thought about spicing up the sleeves or the bottom of the sweater and it just looks so good as it is that I haven’t brought myself to do it yet.