SLEEVELESS PULLOVER

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21820, 25 November 1940, Page 8

SLEEVELESS PULLOVER

FOR TRAINING PILOTS Materials: 6oz. 4-ply wool, 1 pair 10, 1 pair 8 needles. Size: 36-inch chest. Tension, 6 stitches to the- inch. Front: Cast on 100 stitches on No. 10 needles and rib k. 2, p. 2 for 31 inches. Change to No. 8 needles and continue in stocking stitch till the work measures 13 inches. Start the armhole border by knitting 12 stitches at each side in garter stitch for 4 rows. Shape the armhole by casting off 6 stitches at each side. Then, keeping a border of 6 stitches in garter stitch, decrease 4 times at each side alternate rows. You now have 80 stitches. Commence the neck by knitting the 12 centre stitches in garter stitch for 4 rows. Divide for neck opening. There is now a border of garter stitch on each side and on the neck edge of 6 stitches. Shape neck by knitting together the two stitches next to the border 13 times every 4th row. You have now 27 stitches. Continue till armhole measures 9 inches. Beginning at the armhole edge, shape shoulder by casting off 7 stitches alternate rows 3 times. Continue on the 6 neck border stitches for 2 inches, cast off. Make the back the same as the front, omitting neck opening. To Make Up: Join shoulder and side seams, join neck border and attach to the neck edge of the back.