This is a girly cardigan with a lot of nice details, lace pattern, ruffled skirt part and cropped sleeves. It’s worked seamlessly topdown.
Starting with the neckopening and working than the increases in the yoke part, after puttig the sleevestitches on hold you go on with body and finally the ruffled skirt part. Over the complete yoke and bodypart you work at the beginning, the end and in center back the lace motiv over 7 stitches. Picking up the sleevestitches again and working them in rounds, given are measurements for ¾ length sleeves but you can easily adjust the length. To finalize pick up stitches for the buttonbands on both frontedges, work buttonholes, sew on buttons opposite.

Sizes: 1y / 2y / 3y (on picture) / 4 y

Finished chest measurements: 54 / 62 / 66 / 69 cm (after blocking)

Needles: circular needle 4,0 and douplepointed needles in 4,0 (if you prefer to work sleeves with dpns and not with circular needle using magic loop method)

Gauge: 20st/26r – 10/10 cm (after blocking)

Yarn: 2 / 3 / 3 / 4 skeins of Drops Merino Extrafine (50g/105m), 100% Wool

You need:
• Stitch markers (8), Stitch holders or waste yarn, tapestry needle, 6 buttons