Pattern and Video Tutorial for Everyday Baby Jacket

🎥 Step-by-step video tutorial

If you prefer to follow the process visually, here's the complete video tutorial for the crochet Everyday Baby Jacket . In it, I show you how to assemble the base, crochet the sides, form the neckline, and add the sleeves and final elastic.

Materials

• Yarn: Ruby Bambino (100 g ≈ 200 m).
• Crochet hooks: 3.0 mm for knitting; 4.0 mm for initial and recovery chains only .
• Extras: wool needle, markers, scissors, optional buttons.

Idealium Tip: If you're adding buttons, place them on the U-shaped elastic on the flap (whichever side you prefer) and plan the spacing before sewing them on.

Available sizes

• 3 months (1 ball)
• 6 months (1 ball)
• 9 months (2 balls)
• 12 months (2 balls)

Buy your balls of yarn here: Bambino

Throughout the pattern, the stitches and rows are indicated by size in that order, followed by a "/". For example, if it says "knit 4/6/8/10 stitches," for size 3m, knit 4 stitches; for size 6m, knit 6 stitches; for size 9m, knit 8 stitches; for size 12m, knit 10 stitches.

Sample

With a 3 mm crochet hook, in 10 × 10 cm, half stitch (hdc): 18 stitches × 14 rows .

It's important to check your swatch. If your knitting is tighter or looser, you can try a larger or smaller needle size to adjust the swatch.

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Step-by-step pattern

Body · Side 1

• Crochet 4.0 mm: 76/82/86/90 chains .
• Change to the 3.0 mm hook and knit back and forth :
  • Elastic edges: 4 single crochet stitches at each end; the edge stitch (the outermost one) is always completed , and the other 3 sc through the back loop .
  • Central zone: midpoints → 68/74/78/82 pm .
  • Repeat elastic + pm + elastic 10/12/13/15 rounds .

Neck + Back

• Locate the center of the fabric. There are 38/41/43/45 stitches left on either side of the center (for reference).
• To open the neck, from the center to the back we will leave 3 stitches unknitted .
• First back row: elastic + 31/34/36/38 pm , turn and return (we knit the half stitches + elastic ).
• Knit the back like this for 7/7/8/8 rows .

Note: when the row starts in pm , make 1 chain in height that does not count as a stitch .

Body · Side 2

• With the crochet hook placed in the corner of the neck , add chains to recover the initial length: 41/44/46/48 (remember to add them with a 4mm needle).
• Knit the other side the same as the first ( elastic + pm + elastic ) for 10/12/13/15 rows .

Side and armhole closure

• Sew the sides with sl st , leaving armholes of 14/17/18/19 stitches unsewn (on each side).
• Therefore, 24/24/25/26 stitches are sewn on each side and the remaining space is the armhole.

Sleeves

• From the armhole, work the remaining unbound stitches back and forth : 28/34/36/38 stitches for 10/12/13/15 rows . You can work flat and then join with a slip stitch, or join each row with a slip stitch from the last stitch to the first and turn.

• Elastic cuff (in single crochet):
  • Chain 4 , crochet 1 round of sc (with 1 chain in height at the end).
  • On the way down , join to the sleeve with 3 sl st at the base; turn.
  • Go back over the strip with 4 sc ( 3 per back loop + 1 full edge loop ).
  • From the 2nd round onwards, always through the back loop except for the edge stitch (which is always complete).
  • Repeat , joining each lowered row with 3 sl sts until you reach the cuff. Close the rib with a slip stitch.

U-shaped elastic interior (front + neck)

• Work the same as the cuff (strips of 4 sc , back loop + full edge), but joining to the body with 2 sl st (not 3) on each lowering stitch.
• Continue until you have completed the entire inverted U (front – neck – front). Close with a sl st .

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Finishing and care

• Hide strands on the wrong side following the direction of the stitches.
• Washing: Machine washable (max 30ºC).
• Drying : dry horizontally (do not use a dryer).

📥 Download the pattern in PDF:

Everyday Baby Jacket Pattern Sizes 3, 6, 9, 12m - SPANISH