Mary Frances began to thank Fairly Flew for asking her about what she wanted to make, but before she could do so the fairy was gone.
FOR DIRECTIONS FOR MAKING KNITTED ARTICLES SHOWN IN THIS ILLUSTRATION SEE
BEDROOM SLIPPERS—108 CROCHETED MITTENS—211 CROCHETED SOCKS—228
KNITTED MUFF—257 KNITTED BOA—257 CROCHETED NECKLACE—253]
SO the next day Mary Frances told Fairly Flew about what Mary Marie had asked, and the fairy gave her directions for making—
(See picture opposite page 72—color plate)
Material: Rose pink or turquoise blue wool floss, with gray Angora or teazle yarn for trimming.
Two bone knitting needles No. 3. Two steel knitting needles No. 10. Bone crochet hook No. 2. Two small button molds.
This work is begun at the back of the sweater.
1. With pink or blue yarn cast on 40 stitches.
2. Knit plain for 15 ribs (a rib is a row across and back).
3. Knit the stitches off on to the steel needle.
4. Knit 2, purl 2 for 8 rows, then knit off the stitches on a bone needle.
6. Then decrease 1 stitch on each end on every rib (every other row) until there are only 32 stitches on the needle.
Put right needle through 2 stitches on left needle and knit off as 1 stitch.
7. Knit ribs of 32 stitches until there are 16 ribs from the waist line.
8. Knit 10 stitches on the next row, and slip them off on a safety pin.
9. Bind off 12 stitches for back of neck. There will now be 10 stitches on the needle.
10. Knit 4 ribs on these 10 stitches for shoulder.
11. Cast on 8 stitches[J] on neck end for front—to form revers.
12. Knit 6 ribs plain on the 18 stitches now on the needle.
13. At under-arm edge increase by casting on 1 stitch on each rib until there are 24 stitches.
14. Knit plain until there are 17 ribs from the front of the neck down.
15. Take the stitches off on the steel needle and knit 2, purl 2, for 8 rows.
16. Knit the stitches off on to the bone needle and knit 15 ribs, and bind off.
17. Slip the stitches from the safety pin on to a bone needle. Fasten wool at neck end, and make other front like the one just finished.
1. With bone needle, holding right side of sweater toward you, pick up 1 stitch on each rib around the armhole. (See page 202.)
There should be 22 stitches on the needle, 11 on each side of center of shoulder. If you prefer, pick these stitches up with a crochet hook, and slip them on a knitting needle.