Steel pins, No. 10. ½ lb. dark claret-coloured double Berlin wool, at 6s. 6d.
Cast on 60 stitches.
First row—1 plain, 1 pearl. Repeat.
You must be careful always to pearl where, in the preceding row, you worked a plain stitch. Every row is alike. When you have knitted it long enough, work another side in the same manner, and send it to a tailor to make up. This knitting will not run down when cut.
Another.
(LARGER OR SMALLER SIZE.)
As sizes vary so much, a good plan to ensure a nice fit is to measure the front of a waistcoat at the broadest part, and then for every inch allow 6 stitches in double Berlin wool, with steel pins No. 10.
Thus: suppose your waistcoat ought to measure 11 inches across, you must cast on 66 stitches; and for the turnings in you had better allow 9 stitches: altogether, 75 stitches.