Crochet Instructions for a Charming Baby Sweater

Materials Needed

You'll need:

• About 80 g of acryl or cotton middle-weight yarn of white color;
• 4 white buttons;
• Thin satin ribbon of white color;
• Crochet hook 2.

Size

0-3 months

Stitches Control

15 sts x 10 cm.

Instructions

Back and Front

Knit them together, start with the neck-hole.

By means of the crochet hook, make 63 chain sts and work according to scheme 1.

After finishing the 9th row (= 27 pattern repeats) and 4 sts for the front fastener from each side, make the 2nd row of scheme 2: 4 double crochets (fastener's placket) and 4 pattern repeats (right half of back), skip 5 pattern repeats (sleeve) and make 9 more pattern repeats (front part), skip 5 pattern repeats again (second sleeve) and make 4 pattern repeats + 4 double crochets of the fastener's placket (left part of back).

Continue work according to scheme 2. In 15 cm finish your work and cut the yarn.

Assembly

Fasten the neck-hole and both parts of the back with 1 row of single crochets and 1 row of "shrimp stitch".

Sew 4 buttons to the right part of the back: the first button should be located 5 cm from the bottom part, and the last one should be placed 1 cm from the upper part. Button-holes will be the holes in the ornament.

Insert satin ribbon in the 1st and 8th rows of the yoke and fasten its ends by means of a needle from the wrong side of your work.