Free Crochet Pattern Guide: Ribbed Long Sleeved Selma Dress Mini crochet dress with side slit

Hook: 4,5 mm

Yarn: cotton blend, size 2, sport. 50 g = 120 m.

I used 8 skeins (960 m) for my size M/L

Front panel

1. Follow pattern for Selma dress but when taking measurement 1, measure from neck/shoulder and down.

2. Use double crochet in back loop for the stitches. 

3. For the decrease on hip and bust make approx. 3-4 decrease per row. Using both ss and dc dec. For instance: 2 ss, 2 dc dec.

4. After making your first panel continue with the back. 

Back panel

1. Make the back panel the same way as the front. Only, when you have made approx. 8-12 rows, or however much you want covered on the back, you stop and take the panel up against your body either on the front and back, then mark the stitch where you want the back cut out to be. I wanted mine approx 10 cm above my waist. 
   
2. Then crochet until you reach that stitch, leaving the rest of the row open for the back.  
   
3. Crochet back and forth and measure along on your first panel to see how many rows you need. 
   
4. Then remember to stop to make the same numbe of rows in the other end of the panel. Make a chainless foundation out from your row to elongate it (count how many stitches you have on the other shoulder). And crochet the same amount of rows here. 

Bust and hip

1. Do the bust and hip rows as you did on the front. 

Join panels 

1. Connect front and back on the shoulder over the 8-12 rows you made here. 
   
2. Put on the dress and mark the armpits. Crochet from here and down, stopping 8-10 stitches from the edge of the dress for a slit. 

The sleeves:

1. Make a chainless foundation of dc and measure from your shoulder and down. This will be from where your armpit is and down to your wrist. If you need to, pull the row, to see how long it becomes when stretched.
   
2. Make dc in back loop back and forth and stretch the sleeve around your upper arm (or fullest part of your arm as you go. Stop when you have your desired size.
   
3. Slip stitch first and last row together, leaving 8-10 stitches open at the end for a sleeve slit. 
   
4. Crochet the sleeve onto the armhole of your dress. Use pins if needed, to keep it in place. 
   
5. Make the other sleeve as well. 

Edge

Crochet a single crochet edge around the opening of the top, both front and back. 2 sc per dc row, 1 sc per dc stitch Break of the yarn. 

Back strap 

For the back strap, insert your hook with 1 ss on the middle of the back opening from the right side, hook through the next stitch, yarn over, pull through, yarn over, pull through 1, yarn over pull through both loops. 

This is single crochet chainless foundation. Continue until you have 80 stitches. Break off the yarn and do the same on the other side. 

Nipple covers 

For the nipple covers start by making a little circle:

Chain 4, 1 ss in the 4th ch. Ch 1, 8 sc in the hole. 

2 sc in every stitch. 1 ss in the first stitch. (Make more rounds if needed by making 8 dec. per round).

Break off the yarn but leave a long yarn end .

Put on the dress with the wrong side facing out. 

Place the nipple cover where you want it. Use a safety pin. Then sew through every stitch in the outside edge of the circle and through the stitches on the wrong side of the dress. Do the same with the other one.