Garments
A crocheted garment lives or dies on gauge and drape. Crochet fabric is heavier and less elastic than knit, so a stitch pattern that looks good in a swatch can sag into something shapeless once it's a whole sweater hanging off your shoulders.
Every pattern here lists finished measurements for each size, not just a label, and tells you how much ease it's designed with. Read those against a garment you already own and like before you pick a size - that comparison is more reliable than a bust measurement alone.
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Getting Garments right
Choose your size by finished measurement, not label
Lay a sweater you love flat and measure it across the chest. Match that number to the pattern's finished chest measurement for the size you'll make, allowing for the ease the designer intended. A 'medium' means nothing across different patterns; a 42-inch finished chest means the same thing everywhere.
Swatch in the round if the garment is in the round
Most people's crochet tension differs between rows worked back and forth and rounds worked continuously. If the yoke is seamless, your swatch has to be too, or the gauge you measured won't be the gauge you get.
Pick a yarn with some drape
Rigid stitch patterns in a stiff cotton make a garment that stands away from the body like cardboard. For anything you want to fall softly, look for a yarn with a fluid hand - a wool blend, a merino, a cotton-silk - and a stitch pattern with some open space in it.
Block each piece before you seam
Wet-blocking evens out your stitches, relaxes the fabric to its true measurements, and makes the edges straight enough to seam neatly. Pin each piece to size on a towel, let it dry fully, and only then sew - seaming unblocked pieces locks in every wobble.