In using the Continental Method, the thread is thrown as in purling.
CHAPTER XXXVIII
TWO MORE SWEATERS
CHILD’S KNITTED SWEATER[R]
Size 6 to 8 years
Courtesy of “Bear Brand Yarn Manufacturers”
7 balls colored Shetland floss, 1 ball white. 1 pair knitting needles No. 7.
Body. With colored floss cast on 72 stitches (16 inches), knit 6 ribs (12 rows), drop floss temporarily; with white knit 1 rib and fasten off; pick up colored floss and knit 5 ribs; join white and knit 1 rib, fasten off; with colored floss knit 50 ribs. Work should now measure about 16 inches from beginning. Cast on 50 stitches at each side for sleeves and knit 22 ribs. On next row knit 77 stitches and slip on to a spare needle, bind off 18 stitches for neck, knit remaining 77 stitches and knit back. Increase one stitch at neck every other rib 12 times, bind off the 50 sleeve stitches and on the remaining 39 stitches knit 15 ribs even, ending the last row at front opening; slip these stitches on to the spare needle and knit the other front to correspond, ending the last row at underarm. Knit stitches from both fronts (78) on to one needle and knit even for 35 rows, then work border as on back; bind off loosely on wrong side.
Cuff. Working with colored floss from wrong side pick up 35 stitches around wrist and knit 4 ribs, with white knit 1 rib, with colored floss knit 5 ribs, with white 1 rib, with colored floss 2 ribs; bind off loosely on wrong side. Sew up sleeves and underarm seams, turn back cuff.