Knitti - so pretty

As I write this, it's a bank holiday here in England, and it's tipping down with rain. Any thoughts I have of browsing around for some easy summer dresses for my daughter have been dashed by this typically British weather: while I know the hot days will come, it's very hard to imagine right now.

Still, once I'm thinking dresses, it's a hard subject to shake, and these lovely examples from Knitti would do through a wet spring and into a mellow autumn. Unlike anything else on the market, they manage to be both pretty and unrestrictive - not a trick that many dresses manage.

What's more, the site promises that they are all machine washable, and made from 'itch-free' Merino wool. Add that to the exuberance you see in the kind of designs pictured above, and you have an irresistible product.