These coats are made with sleeves and collar; they descend about twelve inches below the waist, and form very comfortable warm wrappers, fitting tight to the figure. They should be knitted in a dark rich colour, with a border, about four inches deep, in black or white. If the border be white, small black worsted tufts, in imitation of ermine, may be added. According to the following improved method of working this jacket, it is divided into three portions,—the body, the sleeves, and the collar.
N.B. The whole of the knitting is in Brioche stitch; that is,—bring the wool forward, slip one, knit two together.
Commence with the border, at the lower part of the jacket, by casting on—with white—two hundred and eighty-eight stitches.—Four-thread fleecy.—Needles, No. 9, or 10.
Knit thirty rows—white. Pass off seven ribs, on either side, on to a string; and, on the remaining stitches, knit eighteen rows—coloured.
On the nineteenth (coloured) row—knit fifteen ribs; decrease one rib, by knitting three stitches in one;—knit forty-seven ribs; decrease one rib, as before; knit the remaining fifteen ribs.
Knit one hundred rows,—decreasing on every twentieth row, in the same manner and place.
In the next row—knit fifteen ribs; decrease one rib; then, decrease on every fifth rib, until within fifteen ribs of the end of row.
Knit fifty rows. Then—