How To Knit This Man's Cardigan

Radio Record, 26 June 1936, Page 58

How To Knit This Man's Cardigan

ELOW are the. remaining instructions for knitting the Man’s Cardigan, as published on. the inside back cover of last week’s. "Radio Record." This continuation was inadvertently omitted last week. K. 3, cast off 6 sts., K. 3. K, 3, cast on 6 sts., K. 3, K. 8, K. in back of 6 cast on sts., K. 3. Work 3 inches in garter st. Make second buttonhole, as last one. Make 4 more buttonholes with 3 inches. Garter st. 12 rows on 38 sts, as on left front, cast off 38 sts. On the No. 10 pins with the 24 sts. knit‘ted in mixture pattern, K, the pocket lining sts. as follows: K. 12, P. 3, K. 12, P. 3, K. 8 on the 19 remaining sts. of front, K. 4, P. 8, K. 12." P. 1 row. Work the 2 pattern rows on these 81garter stitches between each buttonhole. Work 42 inches garter st. from the last buttonhole. Tack the buttonholes together, to save them stretching open while pressing, then press the border lengthwise until it is long enough, to reach from. the -bottom of one front, round the neck, to the bottom of second front, TO MAKE UP. Press the back, front and sleeves;. but do not.use a damp cloth under the hot iron. Sew the pocket linings to the fronts, but do not take the stitches through to the front. of the work. Sew ° the garter stitched borders in position. Join the fronts to the back at- the shoulders. Sew the garter stitched border to the edges of the cardiga keeping the edges level at the bottom o: fronts, and placing the 6th buttonhole on a level: with the first neck decreasing on left front. Base the border at. this point to make it lie flat at a nice angle. Press the shoulder seams and front border, Join the sides of the cardigan, Join the sleeves. Press the seams. Sew the sleeves into the armholes, the. seanis of the. sleeves to be one inch from the seams of the cardigan on each front. Press the seams. Sew six buttons: on the right border to correspond with the buttonholes on left front. ‘