Sweater Dress Love

I was on Net-a-porter.com earlier today (I can’t afford to shop on this site, but I enjoy cruising the knitwear!) and saw this: That’s a Chloe Ribbed Knitted Dress, regularly priced at $1404.20, for the summer 2008 collection. Doesn’t it look remarkably similar to the Ribbed Mini Dress (ravelry link) from the Summer 2007 Vogue Knitting? I hate to say it, but it looks like the design team at Chloe totally ripped of Mary Lynn Patrick.

But I did see this, and I’m absolutely in love with it: This little number is courtesy of Stella McCartney, and I’m seriously considering knitting it. Minus the batwing sleeves and with a tad more waist shaping. I’ve had a secret obsession with knitted dresses for a while now, but haven’t yet made one. The trouble is, there are two very good reasons why I haven’t yet taken the plunge- 1. That’s definitely going to take a lot of time! I have no idea what I’d blog about while knitting it (‘hi, here’s a shot of the stockinette… and more stockinette two weeks later….’ etc.)2. That’s a lot of yarn, and it won’t be cheap. Of course, it would be much cheaper than a ready-made Stella McCartney dress, but still. A bit more than my little yarn budget can handle at the moment.