This child’s sweater jacket is suitable for children ranging in age from 4 to 6 years. It is made with sleeves, a collar, pockets, and a belt.

For body of sweater see Figs. 39 and 40.

For sleeves, collar, and pockets see Figs. 42, 43, 44 and 45.

Quantity of Yarn Required.

Twelve ounces of four-fold yarn.

Rake.

No. 2 (? inch × ¾ inch) Fig. 1.

No. 3 would make a very closely knitted sweater.

Stitches.

Double stitch for the band at the bottom, the cuffs, and the top of the pockets.

Single stitch for the rest of the sweater.

DIRECTIONS.

To make the body of the sweater, follow the directions given for the boy’s slipover sweater in Chapter 8, with the following changes:

1. Knit the bands at the bottom with double stitch instead of triple stitch, and the body of the sweater with single stitch instead of double.

2. Cast off only sixteen nails at the back of the neck, eight in each row. (See section 11, Chapter 8.)

3. Leave the sweater open all the way down the front; that is, continue using two balls of yarn, and wind from the sides to the center only and back to the sides. (See section 16, Chapter 8.)

To Knit the Sleeves (Fig. 42.)

1. Begin to knit the sleeve at the top. Cast stitches on sixteen nails in the center of the rake, eight nails in each row.

2. Using the single stitch, add two nails in each winding until about 60 nails are in use, 30 nails in each row. The sleeve should measure about 10 inches at E F, Fig. 42.

3. Knit five rows, then cast a stitch off one nail on one side of the sleeve.

4. Knit five rows, then cast a stitch off one nail on the other side.

5. Knit four rows, cast a stitch off one nail on the first side of the sleeve.

6. Knit four rows, cast a stitch off one nail on the other side.

7. Repeat 5 and 6 for three times; that is, until six more nails have been dropped, three on each side of the sleeve.

8. Then every three rows of knitting, drop two nails at a time, first on one side of the sleeve and then on the other, until only 42 nails remain in use, 21 in each row.

9. When the sleeve measures 12 inches from D to F, change to a double stitch on the next winding. Knit 2½ inches double stitch for the cuff.

10. Cast the knitting from the rake.

To Knit Collar and Bands (Fig. 43.)

The collar and the bands for down the front are made in one piece.

1. To find the exact length required, measure from the bottom edge of the front of the sweater to point E at the neck. (See Fig. 40.) This gives the length A-B of the band shown in Fig. 43. Measure from E around the neck of the sweater to the center of the back. This gives the length C-D, Fig. 43, of one-half of the collar.

2. Cast stitches on twelve nails, six in each row. Knit 2½ inches of band A-B with double stitch, and the rest of the length single stitch. Remember to provide for the buttonholes. (See directions given in section 8, Chapter 4.)

3. When the band is the required length, with the next winding add 24 nails to the right of the knitting, twelve nails in each row, making 36 nails in all. Knit the collar until a piece of the required length has been made.

4. Cast stitches from the 24 nails added above for the collar.

5. Knit the second band, using double stitch for the last 2½ inches.

6. Cast knitting from the rake.

7. Take up the loose stitches at the beginning of the first band, as described in section 6 of Chapter 4. Crochet around the outer edge of the collar with a single crochet stitch.

To Knit the Pockets (Fig. 44.)

1. Cast stitches on 30 nails.

2. Knit 2¼ inches of single stitch.

3. Knit 1 inch of double stitch.

4. Cast knitting from the rake.

To Knit the Belt.

1. Knit a length as long as desired, using twelve nails and a single stitch. Make two buttonholes, 3 inches apart, near the end that will wrap over. This end may be pointed by casting off one stitch on each row of knitting for the last eight or ten rows.

The parts of the sweater are now ready to be sewed together as described in section 7 of Chapter 4.

Fig. 45 shows the pattern for a collar when the sweater is made slipover style, closed down the front.

1. Cast stitches on four nails, two in each row. Keep one side, A-C, of knitting straight. On the other side add two nails at a time until the collar is wide enough. About twenty nails in each row makes a good collar. Use single stitch.

2. Continue knitting on these 40 nails until the straight edge of the collar is long enough to go from the point of the V in the front, around to the upper end of the V on the other side.

3. Cast stitches off two nails at a time, to slope the collar to correspond to the other end, until only four nails remain.

4. Cast knitting from the rake. Crochet around the outer edge of the collar with a single crochet stitch.

Remember that it is the straight edge of this collar which is sewed to the sweater.