DOLL’S KNITTED SLEEVELESS SILK SWEATER
(See picture opposite [page 230])
Material: Mercerized rose pink cotton No. 3, with turquoise blue cotton No. 3 for trimming; or crochet silk No. 3. Bone crochet hook No. 3. Bone knitting needles No. 3.
Directions:
To Make the Back:
1. With pink material cast on 36 stitches.
2. Knit 2, purl 2, for 20 rows, slipping off first stitch on each row.
3. Knit plain for 11 ribs. (A row across and back makes a rib.)
4. Knit 2 stitches off as one at each end, every other row, until there are only 28 stitches on the needle.
DOLL’S SILK SWEATER
5. Knit plain until you have 20 ribs.
6. Bind off.
To Make the Front:
1. Cast on 36 stitches and follow directions for making the back until the 11 ribs of plain knitting are finished.
2. On the twelfth rib, narrow at each end by knitting first 2 and last 2 stitches together, making 34 stitches on the needle.
3. Slip 17 stitches on to a safety pin, keeping the remaining stitches on the needle.
4. Narrow by knitting 2 stitches together at each end every other row until there are 11 stitches; then narrow only on the neck edge, every other row until there are 8 stitches.
5. Knit ribs of 8 stitches until there are 23 ribs from the waist line to the shoulder, and bind off.
6. Take the stitches off the safety pin on to the needle; and make other side like the first.
Sew fronts and back of the sweater together under arms and on the shoulder lines.
With the blue cotton, put 2 rows of single crochet around the armholes and neck taking up each stitch.