ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

Evening Star, Issue 19274, 12 June 1926, Page 20

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

“Mrs J.”—-Here aro the details you asked for in making a man’s knitted mitten:—Material: Two ounces 4-p!y fingering and No. 14 steel knittingneedles. Directions: Cast on seventytwo stitches, twenty-four on each of three needles; knit two, purl two, for thirty-two rounds for wrist—which will be about two and three-quarter inches deep; then knit plain, taking every fifth and sixth stitch together, so making sixty stitches in the round. Knit six more rounds for the hand, then commence gusset for thumb,thus: Arrange stitches on needles as follows; Twenty-four on each of_ two, and twelve on the third, which is the gusset needle. First row; Beginning on needle containing twelve stitches, knit twelve, then lift up loop right below this last stitch, and knit it; finish the round plain, then do three rounds without any increase on gusset. Fifth row: On gusset needle knit twelve, lift up half of stitch below this twelfth stitch and knit it; now lift up half of stitch below last stitch and knit this; knit last stitch. Knit three rounds plain, then increase again after twelfth stitch, and again below last stitch before knitting off last stitch. Work this way until there aro twentynine stitches on the gusset needle altogether. Next row:'Knit eleven off this needle, and thread the remaining eighteen on a safety-pin: cast on four on same needle, and knit eighteen rounds, which completes upper' part of hand. Oast off. For the thumb: Place the eighteen stitches from the safetypin on two needles, with the third needle lift up four stitches from where you cast on four at the part of main hand: knit about twenty rounds for thumb, and then cast off. For right and left hands the same directions can be used.