Let's head back to 1965 again! In this year, Stitchcraft featured patterns for full-length dresses on a couple of its covers. The simple lines of 1960s dresses would probably have meant that they were well within the power of the average amateur to make—though perhaps a bit more than average time and patience was required!
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| January 1965 |
January 1965 features a knitted sweater dress—in double knitting! For the non-knitters among you, double knitting is method of producing a fabric of double thickness using two sets of needles. OK, maybe this pattern did take that little bit of extra skill, but the results would certainly have been warm and cosy!
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| March 1965 |
In March we have a crocheted shift dress (so no need for shaping) in a fairly simply cluster stitch with fringed neck- and hemline. Cluster stitch produces a double-sided fabric, so it's possible that this dress could have been worn inside-out.
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