Baby Sweater & Hat, Crocheted Sideways

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Pattern stitch for Yoke: work in single crochet (sc).
Pattern stitch for Body: work in half double crochet (hdc). Half double: Start as for dc, insert hook in work, draw yarn through, yo hook and draw through all 3 loops on hook.

Sweater

• Row 1: Starting at neck edge, work 1 sc in 2nd ch from hook, 1 sc in each of next 19 chs (yoke), 1 hdc in each of remaining 27 chs (body). Ch 2, turn.
• Row 2: Work 1 hdc in each of next 37 sts, 1 sc in each of next 20 sts. ch 1, turn.

Shape Armhole: Attach white on 21st stitch from neck edge (beginning of body) and work 4 rows across body sts only, end at armhole edge. Place a marker in center of last stripe to indicate right underarm edge. Do not break yarn.

Back: With white, ch 21 for back armhole. With cc work 1 sc in 2nd ch from hook and in each of remaining 19 chains. Now work across body sts and continue in striped pattern until there are 8 cc and 7 white stripes.

Left Armhole & Left Front: Work to correspond with right armhole and right front.

Sleeves: With white, ch 40. Starting at underarm seam work 1 hdc in 3rd ch from hook and each of next 27 chs, then work 1 sc in each of remaining 10 chains for cuff. Ch 1, turn. Working in striped pattern, keep the 10 cuff sts in sc and remaining part of sleeve in hdc increasing 1 stitch at end of every hdc row (6) times for cap of sleeve; there should be 2 white stripes and 2 cc stripes. Work straight for 1 white stripe. Work other half of sleeve to correspond, decreasing at end of next cc stripe and continue to decrease to 40 sts. (9 stripes in sleeve) Break yarn.

Finishing: Join shoulders across 2 white and 2 cc stripes, leaving remaining stripes of each colour for neck. Sew seams.
Work 1 row of (cc) sc around neck and along front edges working 3 button loops on fright as follows:

• *ch2, skip 2 sts, 1 sc in each of next 3 sts.

Cap