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Size 16

1 Pr. No. 2 Steel Needles

Scale: 8 sts. to 1 inch; 12 rows to 1 inch

1 No. 2 Steel Circular Skirt Needle

1 No. 2 Steel Crochet Hook

MINERVA VELVEEN
Black No. 1136 … 11 Balls
White No. 1100 … 2 Balls

JACKET: Back—With Black cast on 129 sts. and work in Moss St. decreasing 1 st. each side every ½ inch 8 times. When work measures 4 inches from start, change to Stockinette St. and work 1 inch even (work measures 5 inches), and increase 1 st. each side. Increase 1 st. each side every ½ inch 11 times. Work 1 inch even (work measures 11½ inches). Decrease 1 st. each side every other row until 41 sts. remain, bind off.

Right Front—Cast on 57 sts. and work in Moss St. decreasing 1 st. at underarm side every ½ inch 8 times. Then, working from front edge, work 17 sts. in Moss St. and the remainder of the sts. in Stockinette St. Continue in this manner working these first 17 sts. at front edge in Moss St. and the rest of the sts. in Stockinette St. When work measures 5 inches from start increase 1 st. at underarm side, then increase 1 st. at this side every ½ inch 11 more times. When work measures 11 inches from start, working from front edge, work the 17 sts. in Moss St., K. 2 sts. tog., continue across row. Decrease in this manner (by K. 2 tog. directly after the Moss St. border) every 4th row 16 times.

At the same time, when work measures 12 inches from start, decrease 1 st. at underarm side every other row 48 times. When the 48 decreases at side edge are completed, all sts. have been worked off.

Left Front—Work to correspond to Right Front.

Sleeves—Cast on 97 sts. and working in Moss St. decrease 1 st. each side every ¾ inch 8 times, changing from Moss St. to Stockinette St. when work measures 4 inches from start. Work even for 2 inches then increase 1st. each side every inch 8 times. When work measures 16 inches from start, decrease 1 st. each side every K. row until 5 sts. remain, bind off.

Cuffs—With White cast on 95 sts. and work even in Moss St. for 1½ inches, bind off.

Sew sleeves in place, sew underarm and sleeve seams. Sew cuffs in place with ¾ inch of cuff showing below bottom of sleeve.

VESTEE: Right Front—With White cast on 55 sts. Entire vestee is worked in Moss St. Work ½ inch even, work a buttonhole at front edge by: work 2 sts., bind off 2 sts., work across row. On the next row cast on 2 sts. over those bound off. Work 14 more buttonholes in this manner ¾ inch apart. When work measures 12 inches from start, bind off 9 sts. at neck edge once, then 1 st. at neck edge every other row 14 times. At the same time, when there are 35 sts. left on needle bind off 8 sts. at armhole edge every other row 4 times, for slanting shoulder.

Left Front—Work to correspond to Right Front, omitting buttonholes.

Back—Cast on 89 sts. and work in Moss St. for 3 inches. Bind off 9 sts. at the beginning of each of the next 6 rows, for slanting shoulder. Bind off remaining sts.

Collar—Cast on 111 sts. and work in Moss St. for 1½ inches. Knit 1 row for turn, then work in Stockinette St. for 1½ inches. Bind off. Sew shoulder seams, fold collar double and sew around neck of vestee, holding neck in to collar; sew ends of collar together. Sew small buttons down left front of vestee.

Lapels—Cast on 7 sts. and work in Moss St. throughout. Working increases on 1 edge and de­creases on other edge at the same time, cast on, at one edge only, 7 sts. every other row 7 times, then 5 sts. every other row 3 times. Then work this edge even. On the other edge, decrease 1 st. every 4th row 16 times, then 1 st. every 3rd row until 4 sts. remain, bind off.

SKIRT—With No. 2 Steel Circular Skirt Needle cast on 390 sts. Join, being careful not to twist sts. Work even for 5 inches then decrease as fol­lows : * K. 37, K. 2 tog., repeat from * around row (10 sts. decreased in round). In each decreas­ing row there will be 1 less st. between the de­creases than in previous decreasing row.

Work 4 inches even and decrease in this manner.

Work 3 inches even and decrease.

Decrease every 2 inches 5 times.

Decrease every inch 8 times.

Work 1 inch even (skirt measures 31 inches). Work 2 rows S. C. around bottom of skirt. Work beading at top for elastic.