KNITTING

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 612, 17 August 1933, Page 2

KNITTING

A MAN'S PULLQYER. As a change from jumpers worked in stocking stitch and cahle stitch, directions -are given this week for making a jumper in panels of 5 plain and 5 moss stitch. This will fit a 35-ineh chest measurement. Materjals required: Twelve ounces of 4-ply wool; Nos. 9 and 12 peedles. Begin at the lower edge of the back and cast on 110 stitcbes, with No. 12 needles. Rib 2 plain, 2 purl, for four inches; change to pattern and No. 9 needles; * 5 plain, 5 moss stitch; repeat from * to the end of the row. Second row. * 5 purl over 5 plain 3.pd 5- moss stitch over 5 moss stitch; • repeat from * to end of row. Knit until the work measures 16i inches- at the underarm seam. Shap,e the armholes by casting off six stitches at the beginning of the next two rows and decrease one stitch at each end of your needle in eyery other row four times. Knit until the armhole measures 81 inches. Shape the shoulder by oastiijg off six stitches at the beginning of every row until there are 36 stitches left in the centre at the hack of the neck. Cast off. The front: Make exactly the same as the back to within one inch of the armhole. Divide the stitches in halves for the Y neck and decrease one stitch at the neck edge in every fourth row for one inch. Shape the armholes by easting off five stitches on the armhole edge and decreasing one stitch in every other row three times. Keep on decreasing one stitch at the neck edge in every fourth row until the shoulder is the same width as the shoulder at the hack (28 stitches). Knit on until the armhole measures 81 inches. Shape the shoulder by casting off six stitches on the armhole edge in every other row until all stitches are oast off. Make the other side of the neck to match. The sleeve: Begin at the lower edge of the cuff and cast on 65 stitches; ri'b for four inches with: the smaller needles and then change to No. 9 needles and knit in pattern, increasing one stitch at each end of your needle in every seventh row until there are 96 stitches. Knit until the sleeve is long enough at the underarm seam. Knit 2 together at each end of yo*ur needle in every row until 25 remain. Cast off. Make another sleeve to match. Press well and make up, sewing in the sleeves, seam to seam. With No. 12 needles, pick up all the stitches round the V neck and rib 1 plaip, 1 purl, for U inches, always knitting two together on either side of the Y neck in every row. Cast off loosely. Press the neck carefully.