This pattern is tested by a large group of testers.
List of testers at the bottom of these notes.

Sizes
Finished chest measurements, after washing/blocking and worked at gauge:
Size 1: 0 – 3 months: 42 cm/16.5”
Size 2: 3 – 6 months: 46 cm/18” Size 3: 6 – 9 months: 50 cm/19.75”
Size 4: 1 year – 18 months: 53 cm/21” Size 5: 2 years: 56.5 cm/22.5”
Size 6: 3 – 4 years: 60 cm/24” The sample is worked in size 1, 0 - 3 months.

Construction and design elements
The cardigan is worked top-down and seamlessly.
The neck is shaped by a few short-rows (to make it deeper in front than in the back).
The upper-body is worked flat, and it’s shaped by raglan-increases.
Thereafter you work a great portion of the Bouquet de Fleurs-lace. It really reminds me of bunches of flowers!
The sleeves are worked in the round from underarms to bind-off.
The button-bands are worked from picked-up sts along the fronts.
The fit is classic, with a crew-neck and long sleeves (you may easily modify to work a short-sleeved version).

Materials
Yarn: I recommend a lace or fingering weight yarn, with great stitch-definition, that works up to gauge. I used the lace weight yarn ”Sunday” from Sandnes Garn, in the colourway 1015, to work the cardigan. This yarn comes in balls of 50 gr/1.76 oz, and 235 m/257 yards. Of this specific yarn you will need approximately: 230/275/325/350/400/475 m = 250/300/355/385/440/520 yards.
A different yarn than the sample may require more yardage.
Needles Size 3 mm/US2.5 Notions8 removable stitch-markers, waste yarn, blocking tools, 6/7/7/8/8/8 buttons 12 – 13 mm /0.5” across.

Gauge 28 sts and 38 - 40 rounds/rows in stockinette sts (and also the lace-pattern) = 10 x 10 cm/4 x 4”

Knitting techniques and skills

• Skills: intermediate
• Cast-on, bind-off
• Backwards cast-on (link in pattern)
• Short-rows, to shape neck (explained)
• working lace, following charts and/or written instructions
• working flat (back and forth)
• working in the round
• picking up and knit sts (for the button-bands)

The pattern
-The pattern is tested by a large group of testers (read below)
-The lace is charted, as well as written out, row-by-row
-There is a schematic
-All measurements are given in cm’s, as well as in inches

This pattern has been tested.
Thanks to my wonderful and talented testers: alexahen / alisoncuteknits / Carmen73 / craftycoach / dianedelouw / ejmsasha eyenowhour / fuzzywuzzypanda / itssewkimmy / knitabitknitwit / knitwitch47 Kyracrochet / LenaDziuba / nathalie59 / Scjc28 / sleepyhollow51 / tastywench Teeliebhaberin / Tirinella / ultragold / Utopia5580 / Yenxa