16. Continue to decrease 1 single crochet at the neck until you have only 24 single crochet stitches in the row.
17. Sew 7 rows of the front and back at the shoulders to form armholes. (See picture, page 130.)
1. Starting at the left side of the neck, holding outside of the sweater toward you, put 1 single crochet in each stitch all around the sweater until you come to the right side of the neck, except at the corner stitches at the bottom, in which put 3 single crochets.
2. Chain 1 to turn, and work back to the starting point in the same way.
3. Then put one row of slip stitches all around sweater.
Make 5 buttons of orange floss just as you made the buttons on the doll’s pink sweater (see page 205).
Thread a long-eyed needle with black floss and decorate the buttons with cross stitches around the edges.
1. With black floss, chain 31. Use 1 chain stitch to turn.
2. Make 30 single crochets. Make 1 chain.
3. Make 6 rows of 30 single crochets, taking both threads.
5. Make 6 rows of 30 single crochets. (Add chain stitches as for lengthening in No. 9 above.)
6. With two strands of the black floss put 1 row of single crochet across the bottom edge of the back of the collar.
7. With single black floss put 1 row of slip stitches all around the collar.
3. Second row: Put 2 single crochets in the first stitch. Make 1 single crochet in each stitch to the end of the row. Chain 3 to turn.
4. Third row: Make 1 single crochet in each of the 2 chains, and make single crochet to the end.
5. Fourth row: Put 2 single crochets in the first stitch; single crochet to the end of row. Chain 5. Turn.
6. Fifth row: Put 4 single crochets in the chain, and single crochet to end of the row. 1 chain.
7. Sixth row: Put 2 single crochets in the first stitch; single crochet to end of row. 1 chain.
8. Seventh row: Make 17 single crochets, 1 chain.
9. Eighth row: Put 2 single crochets in the first stitch; single crochet to end. Make 1 chain.
11. On the fifteenth row, skip the stitch next to the last. Make 1 chain.
12. Sixteenth row: Make 17 single crochets and 1 chain.
13. Seventeenth row is the same as the fifteenth row.
14. Eighteenth row is 16 single crochets and 1 chain.
15. Nineteenth row: Put a slip stitch in each of the first 4 stitches; single crochet to the end of the row, skipping the next to the last stitch. Chain 1.