11. On the next row (the forty-fourth) make 20 single crochets for 8 rows under arm.

12. On the next row (the fifty-second) add 11 chain stitches. Use 1 chain to turn. Make 10 single crochets in the chain and 20 single crochets in the under arm stitches.

13. Make 7 rows of the 30 single crochets.

14. On the next row make 27 stitches. (Be sure to make this row from the bottom upward.) Make 1 chain to turn.

15. Skip the first single crochet at the neck, and make 26 single crochets.

16. Continue to decrease 1 single crochet at the neck until you have only 24 single crochet stitches in the row.

This finishes the body of the sweater.

17. Sew 7 rows of the front and back at the shoulders to form armholes. (See picture, [page 130].)

Border around the Sweater: