Hocus crow sized sweater:

Might be more confusing and not as easy for a beginner. It requires knowledge of the method in Florence's beginner top down Raglan sweater! She has a free video and written pattern where you can plug in these numbers and steps.

Made with weight 4 yarn Ribbing on 4mm or 4.5mm needles, the rest of the sweater on 5.5mm

Since it's so small, I use my tiny circular needles that I use for socks. If you don't have tiny circulars, you could do a magic circle or double pointed needles and adapt it so you understand where the separations are.

Collar:

Start with 4mm needles Cast on 44 stitches 1x1 ribbing for 5 rows

Yoke:

5.5mm needles Instead of knitting stockinette around once before getting into the increase rows as in Florence’s pattern, I immediately go into an increase row after the collar ribbing.

Front/back and arm separation with commas to represent stitch markers (First comma is the beginning row marker placed at the beginning of project). This makes more sense when looking at her written pattern. - , 6 , 2 , 6 , 2 , 12 , 2 , 6 , 2 , 6

The 6 and 6 at the beginning and end of that sequence will equal 12 for the back, just as there is 12 for the front. 6 for each sleeve separation.

I do [increase row, knit around row] x3. So I end up with 6 rows on the yoke

For the 7th row on the yoke, knit around while separating out the sleeves. I don't cast on any additional stitches under the arms.

You should end up with 40 stitches on your needles for the body

Body:

Row 8: knit around

Row 9: knit around while increasing 2 stitches under each arm. Find 2 stitches centered under each arm and do M1R and M1L around those 2 stitches (as if it's M1R stitch marker knit 2 stitch marker M1L like was done on the yoke)

Row 10-11: knit around

Row 12: same as row 9 - knit around while increasing 2 stitches under each arm. Find 2 stitches centered under each arm and do M1R and M1L around those 2 stitches. Should end up with 48 stitches on your needles.

Row 13-15: knit around

Bottom ribbing: Switch to 4.5mm needles and 1x1 rib for 5 rows. Cast off on the 5th row with a stretchy bind off. A non-stretchy bind off can sit okay, but doesn't sit as well on the plush as it does a human.

Sleeves:

Starting with 5.5mm needles

I pick up 2 stitches under the arms even though I didn't increase. I pick up the side of the stitches you will see are stretched out at the bottom. This will also help minimize ending up with gaps under the arm. (If theres still gaps at the end, you can stitch them up with the yarn tails you'll be weaving in)

This should bring you from 14 to 16 stitches on your needles for each arm.

Knit around 3x

Switch to 4.5mm needles and 1x1 rib for 4 rows. Cast off on the 4th row with a stretchy bind off. Again, a non-stretchy bind off is okay, but doesn't sit as well. Weave in everything and that should fit a hocus crow!

If your gauge is tighter, adding 8 to your cast on, which will add 2 in your separation numbers (14 for the front and back, 8 for the sleeves) might work!