A PRETTY TENNIS PULLOVER IS MADE FROM AN OLD JUMPER

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1064, 30 August 1930, Page 21

A PRETTY TENNIS PULLOVER IS MADE FROM AN OLD JUMPER

l The new sleeveless tennis pullovers are fascinating little garments, carried out in plain colours, with bands : of contrasting stripes by way of trimj ming. If you have a woolly jumper i which has grown shabby, why not. turn it into a pullover, thus obtaining a new garment for next-to-nothing? Take out the sleeves, and turn in

the raw edges, tacking them down lightly. Cut off the collar, and turn in the raw edges of the neck opening. Now work a line of double crochet round the neck and each arm-hole, making the stitches about an eighth of an inch apart. Penny skeins of embroidery wool, in vivid colours, like coral, orange, lemon, jade and scarlet, with black by way of a contrast, will do quite well for this. When the first crochet lines are finished, take wool of another colour and work other rows into them, taking two stitches together at every seventh hole for the arm-hole rows, to make them slightly smaller. Use a different colour again for the third rows, and decrease by working two stitches together at every ninth hole. The next rows can be done without any more decreasing. You need not decrease round the neck, where five rows of crochet will be enough. Seven or eight rows will be needed for each armhole.

Three rows will finish off the tops of the pockets. And a crochet belt will look well round the waist, the ends slipping through a simple bone buckle.