CORNER FOR BUSY BEES

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 137, 11 June 1932, Page 3 (Supplement)

CORNER FOR BUSY BEES

FOR WINTER WEAR. A KNITTED WAISTCOAT. (Conducted by TINKERBELL.) Dear Girls,— This winter is proving such a cold one that an extra woolly should be very welcome to most of you. The attractive double-breasted waist* coat illustrated below can be made quite easily and at a very reasonable cost. It looks particularly charming; carried out in apple green with a narrow border of black and bottle green. The materials required are Boz of four-ply apple green wool and a small quantity of black and dark green wool. No. 8 knitting needles are used, and you will also need «ix large black buttons for the front. This waistcoat it knitted in wheat stitch: 1 plain, 1 purl, reversed every four rows. In making the back cast on 140 stitches and knit 120 rows up to armhole. For armhole cast off first eight stitches each side, then three and then one. Knit until 175 rows have been knitted from the bottom. Row 176: Knit 43, cast off 30, knit 43. Row 177. Knit Hack on 43. Row 178: Cast oft four. Knit to end. Row 179: Knit back.

Row 180: Cast off three, knit to end. For the shoulder slope cast off nine and knit to end of row. This is row 181. Row 182: Knit back. Repeat 181 st and 182 nd rows three times more. Knit 43 left on the other side of neck in the same way, reversing narrowings. In making the front, cast on 100 stitches, of which 40 form the double breast. Knit in wheat stitch until 87 rows have been done. Row 88: Begin the neck slope by knitting two stitches together every row at front, coming and going. Row 121: Cast off 16 stitches at armhole side. Row 123: Cast off four stitches and at 125 th row cast off two stitches, still continuing the narrowings every front row until 36 stitches remain. Continue on 36 stitches until 184 rows are completed from the bottom. Slope the shoulders in the same way as instructed for the back and do other front in the same way, reversing the narrow;' ngs. With double black wool crochet, in double crochet, round fronts, reck, bottom and armholes, allowing two double crochet to each knitted paltern. Now, in single bottle green wool, do one double crochet into the brown. Crochet three loops in bottle green for the buttonholes and sew the black buttons into place. I am sure older readers will have no trouble in making this cosy little waistcoat, which is particularly neat and warm for wearing under a costume. As knitting is so very popular this winter ! abail find something a little easier fer next week, so that my younger Busy Bees may start knitting also.