This Collar should be worked at a tension to produce about 6 stitches and 12 rows to the inch.
Cast on 45 stitches.
Work 8 rows in plain knitting.
* 9th Row.—K 5, turn.
10th Row.—K 5.
11th Row.—K 5, lift up the stitch before the next and knit it together with the next stitch (thereby preventing a hole), K 4, turn.
12th Row.—K 10.
13th Row.—K 10, lift up the stitch before the next and knit it together with the next stitch, K 4, turn.
14th Row.—K 15.
Continue in this manner, knitting in 5 extra stitches every alternate row, until all the 45 stitches are on one row again *.