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How to crochet easy baby sweater cardigan Tutorial

Hello every one! Today we bring and share my new baby cardigan sweater coat with collar. This adorable and stylish design made for little girls 12 to 24 months. It’s a very special gift for cute and lovely little girls for chilly and cold season. We love and crochet baby items in the whole of the years and also shared in my own blog you always come here and watch my tutorial I am glad to see that you appreciated my designs and follow my work.

All my design made for beginner and for those who want to learn baby things in home Thanks so much for all your support and excitement about my previous patterns and videos’ we couldn’t do it without you!

I will be adding more special design in this season free crochet pattern originally share in my blog. Hope you will be enjoying my new ideas with simple pattern and share the same videos too.

Instructions:  We made this crochet baby cardigan coat/jacket for 12-24 months. We adding two of the colors in this sweater, you also add more colors in your own choice. We used medium weight/worsted weight yarn and 3mm crochet hook for this cardigan jacket. Size of the length we mention in the below description. This baby Cardigan coat with sleeves is crocheted form the neck line to down, it’s very easy to start used a simple double crochet, v st and shell. for large size repeat some of the increasing rounds, if you need a smaller size so, you should less the increasing rounds and start the skirt. We added in new and different design in the skirt, for more help watch my video instructions.

Hope you will be enjoying this baby sweater coat/jacket with sleeves. Watch the same video tutorial too. Let me know about it, in future we bring more beautiful design for the small baby items with same tutorial.

Thank you so much for special all web bloggers who shared my designs in their own blogs and weavers to come here and watch my designs.

Item to be need:

Two color baby

Color A.    150 grams coral medium weight/worsted weight and Iran  (4ply (16-20 = 4 inch)

Color B.   100 grams Turquoise  medium weight/worsted weight and Iran (4ply)

Crochet hook size 3.00 mm

5 Small buttons

Crochet needle

Size to fit:   12-24 month’s baby

Gauge:  5 dc x 2.5 rows = 1 inch

Pattern for gauge:  

Length top to bottom =17 inches

Sleeve length from shoulder = 12 inches

Special stitch:

1.       Count stitches and do stitch marker on the same place.

2.       Ch1 do not count.

3.       Check out the size of the chest before starting the skirt.

4.       V st.   double crochet, chain2, double crochet make in same stitch

5.       Shell. 2 double crochet, chain 1, 2 double crochet in same stitch

6.       Ch3 count as first dc… ch5 counts as first dc and ch2

US Terms Abbreviation

c.           crochet
ch.         chain
sc.          single crochet
dc.         double crochet
slst.       slip stitch
st.          stitch
sts.        stitches
Rnd.      Round
Sp.        Space
Skp.      Skip/miss

Rpt.       Repeat

Pattern:

Start with neckline (worked in one piece)

Rnd 1.    Ch84, dc in 4ch dc in each 11 ch,s,(front) make corner (dc, ch1, dc), dc in each 

               15 ch,s  (1^st shoulder) , make corner (dc, ch1, dc)  in next ch, dc in each 24 ch’s

               (back),  make corner (dc, ch1, dc) dc in each 15 ch’s (2^nd shoulder), make 

                corner(dc, ch1, dc), dc  in each 12ch’s (front)across to end, turn.

Rnd2.     Ch2, dc in same st, dc in each 12 sts to next corner, corner into middle of the 

               corner space, dc in each 17 sts to next corner, corner into middle of corner space,

               dc in each 26 sts, corner into middle corner, dc in each 17 sts for 2^nd, corner 

               into middle corner space, dc in each 13 sts across to end.

Color B:

Rnd 3-14.Repeat Rnd2. Change colors after making 2 rounds.

Skirt:

Divide and Count stitches for armholes:  (front x 2 =25 sts), (sleeves x 2= 43 sts), (back 50 sts).

Next round join front to the back and leave stitches for sleeves.

Color A

Rnd15. Ch1, sc in same st, sc in each 24 sts across to the corner, ch 6, skip 43 sts for armhole,

             sc in next corner st into back side, sc in each 49 sts across to the next corner,  ch6, 

             skp 43 sts for 2^nd armhole, sc in next corner st into front, sc in each 24 sts across to end.                       Fasten off.

With right side facing join yarn into 1^st sc.

Rnd 1.   Ch3(as count), skp 2 sts, make shell (see special st) into next st, * skp 2 sts, shell into 

              next st * rpt * to * across to the end, dc in last st, turn (37 shells)

Rnd 2.   Ch3(as count), v st (see special st) in center of each shell to end, 1dc in top of ch3, turn.

Rnd 3.   Ch3, 1 shell in each ch2 space of v st across to end, 1dc in top of ch3, turn.

Rnd 4-13.             Repeat Rnd 2 & Rnd 3.

Color B:

Rnd 14-19.           Repeat Rnd 2 & Rnd 3.

Color A

Rnd 20-21.           Repeat  Rnd 2 & Rnd 3. Fasten off

Sleeves x 2:

Rnd1.    Rejoin with color A and start at corner make first shell (ch3, dc, ch1, 2dc) in same st, 

             * skp 2 sts, shell in next st,* Repeat * to * around, slst in to the top of 3^rd ch, 

              turn. (14 shells)

Rnd2.    Slst in next 2 sts, slst in next space, Ch5, dc in same sp, make v st in each center of

              each shell  across to end , slst in 3^rd ch, turn.

Rnd3.     into v st space make (Ch3, dc, ch1, 2dc) in same sp, * 1 shell in each ch2 sp of v st 

               across to end, slst in top of 3^rd ch, turn, slst in next ch-space of shell.

Rnd4-9.                 Repeat Rnd2 & Rnd 3.

Color B:

Rnd10-13.            Repeat Rnd2 & Rnd 3.

Color A:

Rnd14-15.            Repeat Rnd2 & Rnd 3. Fasten off.

Note.    Sew little hole under the armhole, use needle and yarn for sewing into wrong side us
whip stitch for sewing.(see the tutorial)

Make left front band:

Rnd1.    Right side facing into neck corner, join color A, ch1, sc in same st, 1 sc in each st 

              across to the Band, turn.

Rnd 2-4. Ch1, sc in same st, sc in each st across to end. Fasten off

Make right front band:

Rnd1.    Right side facing into bottom corner, join color A, ch1, sc in each across to the band, 

              turn.

Rnd2.    Ch1, sc in same st, sc in each st across to end, turn. into next round make 5 button 

              holes.

Rnd3.    Ch1, sc in same st, sc in each next 14 sts, *ch2, skp st, sc in each next 10 sts* 

              repeat * to * across to the band, sc in last 2 sts, turn.( 5 button hols)

Rnd 4.   Ch1, sc in same st, sc in next st, *sc in ch2-sp, sc in each st to next ch2-sp* 

              repeat * to * across to end. Fasten off

Make collar:

Color A:

Rnd1.    Right side facing neck line, skp 3 sts from the band starting, rejoin color A and make 

              ch3 (as count), *skp next 2 sts, shell (see special st) into next st*, repeat * to * across 

              to end, dc in last st leave the 3 sts into the band corner, turn.

Rnd2.    Ch3 (as count), v st (see special st) in center of each shell to end, 1dc in top of ch3, 

               turn.

Rnd3-5.  Repeat Rnd 2 & Rnd 3.

Color B:

Rnd6.    Repeat Rnd 2.

Rnd7.    Ch1, sc in same st, into next ch2-sp make shell( sc,4 dc , sc) in same sp, repeat shell

              (sc, 4 dc, sc) in each ch2- sp across to end, sc in last st. fasten off

Finishing:   sew 5 small buttons in each 5 points. Weave all ends.

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