Aviator Doll’s Knitted Sleeveless Sweater
Material: Olive drab or khaki color knitting worsted.
Knitting needles: One pair No. 3 bone, and one pair No. 12 steel. One crochet hook No. 3.
Directions:
1. With the steel needles cast on 36 stitches.
2. Knit 2 and purl 2 for 12 rows.
3. Next take one of the bone needles in your right hand and knit plain—all the stitches off the steel needle. Then knit 22 ribs with the bone needles.
4. Knit 11 stitches and slip on to safety pin, in order to begin to form the neck.
5. Bind off 14 stitches for neck.
6. On the remaining 11 stitches knit 4 ribs for the shoulder.
7. On this same needle cast on 14 stitches to form opposite side of neck. (See method of Casting On, pages 260 and 261.)
8. Slip the 11 stitches (see No. 6) and the 14 new stitches on another safety pin.
9. Take up the 11 stitches from the first safety pin (see No. 4) with a bone needle. Fasten wool at neck end; knit 4 ribs.
10. Knit back to outer edge of sweater. Then slip the stitches off the other safety pin on to the same bone needle with the stitches made in direction No. 9.
11. Make 22 ribs plain knit.
12. Now take a steel needle in your right hand, and plain knit the stitches on the bone needle off on to the steel needle.
13. Knit 2 and purl 2 for 12 rows and bind off the work.
14. Sew sweater up under the arms, leaving about a 3-inch opening for each arm.
Sew the sweater together in same way as in making the Doll’s Knitted Sleeveless Sweater.
15. Put 1 row of single crochet stitches around the neck and armholes for a finish. Do not make the stitches too tight.
The fairy let Mary Frances use her magic needles, and the little outfit was finished before three o’clock in the afternoon.
Mary Frances put the sweater and wristlets and helmet on the doll and hid it away.
“I do not believe that Billy will miss it,” she told the Knitting and Crocheting People; “and I do want to surprise him some day. He will be so pleased.”
“That chap won’t take cold on any of his air trips, no matter how high he goes,” remarked Crow Shay,
“In coldest weather,
Without a feather,
He’ll feel like a bird
Upon my word.”
“Oh, you’re a little parrot-bird yourself. Keep still, will you?” whispered Wooley Ball, laughing.
“Perhaps Crow Shay is as pleased with this outfit as I am!” exclaimed Mary Frances.
“We all are, I think,” said Fairly Flew. “It was a good idea to ask you about what you wanted to learn to make. Think up something for our next lesson.”
“Mamma,” whispered Mary Marie, “Mary M’rie wants a boo’ful steater wif a wooly tollar.”
“A sports sweater!” cried Mary Frances, softly. “The very thing!”
“A sports sweater! The sweet little thing doesn’t want much, does she?” said Crow Shay, who overheard. “I could write all she doesn’t want on a butterfly’s wing.” But no one paid any attention to him.
Mary Frances began to thank Fairly Flew for asking her about what she wanted to make, but before she could do so the fairy was gone.
READY FOR CHURCH
For Directions for Making Knitted Articles Shown in this Illustration See
Bedroom Slippers—[108] Crocheted Mittens—[211] Crocheted Socks—[228]
Knitted Muff—[257] Knitted Boa—[257] Crocheted Necklace—[253]