MATERIALS: Chadwick's Red Heart Baby Wool, 4 balls (¾ oz. balls) for Infant Size 2; 5 balls for Infant Size 3 … Scraps of wool of contrasting colors for embroidery … Knitting Pins, 1 pair No. 3 (3 mm. size) … 4 buttons.

GAUGE: 7 sts make 1 inch; 9 rows make 1 inch.

BACK … Starting at lower edge of waistband, cast on

Bind off for back of neck.

Shape armhole and front edge simul­taneously as follows: Dec 1 st inside front border and 1 st at side edge on every other row until 14 sts remain. Keeping front edge straight, continue armhole decreases as before until 10 sts of front border remain. Work straight in pattern over these 10 sts for 1½ inches. Bind off.

RIGHT FRONT … Work to correspond with Left Front, making a but­tonhole 3 sts in from front edge when piece measures

and, measuring from 1st row of last buttonhole, every 2 inches thereafter until 4 buttonholes in all are made—to make a buttonhole, on one row bind off 2 sts and on next row cast on 2 sts to replace those bound off.

To Shape Top: Dec 1 st at end of each row until 28 sts remain. Dec 1 st at both ends of each row until 8 sts remain. Bind off.

Press pieces through damp cloth. Sew sleeves in place between back and fronts. Sew side and sleeve seams. Sew ends of front border together and sew in place across back of neck. Sew on buttons. Embroider flowers as illus­trated, or to suit individual taste.