Noro Fringed Dress Knitting Pattern

Noro Fringed Dress

What is Being Made

The Noro Fringed Dress is an intermediate-level knitted garment designed as a pullover dress with an attached fringe detail. This dress is sized for Small (Medium, Large, and X-Large) with finished bust measurements ranging from 35 to 47 inches (89 to 119 centimeters). The total length, including the attached fringe, measures between 31½ and 33½ inches (80 to 85 centimeters), making it a knee-length or midi-length piece depending on the wearer's height and the size selected.

Techniques Used

This dress is constructed using several key knitting techniques that create both structure and visual interest:

• Bottom-up construction: The dress is knitted from the lower edge upward, allowing the knitter to try on the garment as it progresses and adjust the length as needed.
• Lace work: Lace patterning is incorporated into the design, adding an elegant, openwork element to the finished piece.
• Seamed construction: Pieces are knitted flat and then seamed together, creating clean, professional-looking seams that hold the garment's shape.
• Worked flat: Rather than being worked in the round, the dress pieces are created on straight needles, giving the knitter control over shaping and pattern placement.
• Fringe attachment: A decorative fringe is attached to the lower edge, adding movement and a finished, textured border.

Stitches Used

The pattern employs fundamental knitting stitches combined with lace techniques. Essential stitches include:

• Knit and purl stitches: The foundation of the fabric, used to create the base structure and texture.
• Ribbing: Used for finishing edges and creating elasticity, particularly at the bind-off edge where ribbing is maintained to preserve stretch and shape.
• Increases and decreases: Techniques such as knit two together (for decreasing), purl two together, make one (inserting the needle under the strand between stitches and knitting into the back loop), and make one purl stitch are used to shape the garment and create lace patterns.
• Lace stitches: The pattern includes charted lace work, which combines yarn overs and decreases to create openwork sections. The pattern uses "no stitch" notation on charts to indicate where stitches have been decreased or not yet made, requiring the knitter to skip over shaded spaces and work only the active stitches.

Materials

The Noro Fringed Dress is designed to be knitted with Noro Akari yarn in colorway #06. The yardage required varies by size: Small and Medium sizes require 4 balls of 200-gram weight yarn each, while Large and X-Large sizes require 5 balls. This yarn choice provides the drape and color variation characteristic of Noro products.

The pattern calls for multiple needle sizes to achieve proper gauge and construction:

• One pair of US size 6/4mm needles
• One pair of US size 7/4.5mm needles (or size to obtain gauge)
• One pair of US size 8/5mm needles (or size to obtain gauge)
• One US size 6/4mm circular needle, 24 inches in length

The use of multiple needle sizes allows the knitter to create different fabric densities throughout the garment—typically smaller needles for ribbed edges to maintain elasticity and larger needles for the main body to achieve the desired drape and lace definition. Stitch markers are also recommended to help track pattern repeats and shaping points throughout the construction process.