A princess dress

This dress. I'm not quite sure what to say about it. It is a product of a recipe at this blog. With percentages, gauge, and chest measurements off I went to create this dress. I think this will be my only dress as I cannot fathom a day when I would step out in public in a knitted dress. Mind you it isn't that I don't think they are pretty I'm just not sure that this post-two-baby-body could pull it off successfully.

It has a purple garter stitch collar and the same stitch with increases to create a ruffle arm band and another small ruffle on the bottom.

I used jaeger roma yarn in pink and purple. Size 6 needles.

A series of increases on the skirt helped make it twirly.
As always there was lots of running.

And a little color work on the front.

This dress was so much fun to knit, precisely because it wasn't a pattern. It gave me a small taste of design on a large scale. I would really like to branch out a bit more into designing things to fit myself. I am just trying to learn, and practice if you will, as much as possible with knits for my kids. I promise there are some things in the works for myself. I just keep thinking about how fast my babes are growing and I find myself casting on again before they are all grown up.

So while I keep forging ahead in my quest for knowledge on designing my own knits, any tips for where I should look?