Tea Gardens Textured Dress

This is a vintage knitting pattern for Tea Gardens (no. 2883), a lovely textured dress with waist shaping. The dress has a super cute Peter Pan collar and buttons across the bodice and down the side seam. The pattern is taken from the Sun-Glo Knitting Book Series 73. This book is from the 1940s and features women’s frocks, or jacket and skirt combinations. 

The size is for a 32-34 inch bust, however includes instructions on how to alter the sizes with choices from a 36” bust, 40” bust or 44” bust. 

Materials required:

• 15-16 skeins Sun-Glo Shrinkproof or Sunbeam 3 ply fingering weight wool. This wool can be substituted with modern materials to achieve a gauge of 7 stitches x 9 rows for a 1 x 1” square.
• Knitting needles size UK 10/3.25mm.
• Knitting needles size UK 12/2.75mm.  
• Crochet hook. 
• 10 buttons.