0-6 months (6-9 months, 12 months, 18 months)

✅ Finished chest: 20 (21 1/4, 22 3/4, 24) inches (51 (54, 58, 61) cm)

✅ Finished length: 21.5 (24.26) cm (8 1/2 (9 1/2, 10 1/2, 11 1/2) inches (21.5 (24, 26.5, 29) cm)

Caliber

✅ 17 Pa: 14 cm.

✅ 9 Rows: 11 cm.

Instructions

Cardigan

Start at the neck, 36 pc.

Row 1: Dc in 3rd sc from hook (2 skipped sc does not count as a st) and in next 4 sc, 3 dc in next sc, dc in next 5 sc, 3 dc in next sc, dc in the next 10 dc, 3 dc in the next dc, dc in the next 5 dc, 3 dc in the next dc, dc in the last 5 dc – you will have 42 dc in this row.

Place a marker in the center sc of each group of 3 sc to indicate the increase points.

Row 2 (Increase Row): Dc 2 (does not count as st), turn, *dc in each st to next marker, 3 dc in marked st; repeat from * 3 more times, dc in each st until the end of the row – 50 dc.

Repeat row 2, 8 (9, 10, 11) more times – 114 (122, 130, 138) dc in the last increase row worked.

Split for body and armholes

Row 1 (Right Side): 2 Stc (does not count as st), turn, dc in each st to next marker, skip marked st and remove marker, skip all sts to next marker for first armhole, dc in marked st and remove marker, dc in each st to next marker, dc in marked st and remove marker, skip all sts to next marker for second armhole, skip marked st and remove marker, dc in each st until the end of the row – 62 (66, 70, 74) sts for body.

Row 2: 2 Pc (does not count as a st), turn, dc in each st along the length. Repeat row 2 6 (7, 8, 9) more times. Close.

Manga

From the wrong side, join the thread with a sl st in the first skipped st of an armhole.

Row 1 (Right side): Dc 3 (counts as dc), skip same joining point, dc in each of the remaining skipped sts around; join with a sl st at the top of the initial pc-3 – 26 (28, 30, 32) sts.

Row 2: 3 Dc (counts as dc), skip same joining st, dc in each st around; join with a sl st at the top of the initial pc-3.

Repeat row 2 6 (7, 8, 10) more times.

Close. Repeat the operation for the second sleeve.

Finish

Front bands

From the right side, join the yarn with a sl st in the front edge corner, so you are ready to work along the edge between the bottom front corner and the front neck corner.

Row 1 (Right Side): 3 Pc (counts as dc), work dc evenly spaced along front end between bottom and neck corners.

Row 2: 1 Pc, turn, sc in each pto across.

Close. Repeat along the other front edge.

Knit the ends.