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MATERIALS:

Coats Chain Mercer- Crochet No. 20 (20 grm.). *7 (8, 9) balls

colour.

Helected

8 ozs knitting beads.

3 small Black buttoną,

1

pnir ench Milwards 'Dlac' knitting needles No. 18 al 14.

1 stitch holder,

TENSION:

11 sta nnd 13 rows=1 in, (2.5 cm.).

MEASUREMENTS:

To fit Bust 34 (35, 36) in. (86.4, 89, 91.4 cm.).

Length from shoulder 191⁄2 in. (49.5 cm.). Instruc. tions for larger sizes are given in brackets.

ABBREVIATIONS

K-kalt; P-puri; st (s)

stitch (cs);

$t. - stocking stitch; Bead One- push up one bend as close

us possible to next sliteh and purl one st.

DIRECTIONS

Accurate

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 12, 1958.

PRACTICAL

HOMECRAFT

A BEADED BLOUSE IN BLACK

different from that quoted au the correct tension of the garmoni, the tension of the kaliting must be allored and a new sample produced,

BACK

With No. 14 needles, cast p 144 (152, 160) sis. Work in rib (K1, P1) for 4 in. (10 cm.).

Change to No, 13 neodies and work' in af,al, increasing one si at beginning and end of 5th and

0th row und every following

there are 170 (184, 192) sta on needle. Continue without in- measures Croating until work

103 in. (30.5 cm.) from begin- ning.

Back Opening (Right Side)

KP2 (90, 100) sis, put remaia-

ing sto on to a stitch holder, turt

and work on first 12 (00) 100)

pts.

hi Row: Ká, P to end. Zad Row: K.

Hepeat these last 2 rows times more, then work 2 button- hole rows as follows:

1st Row: K3, cast of 2 sts,

K next 2, P to end,

2nd Row: K, east on 2 sts over cast off si

Work 18 rown in st.st, keeping sts in gurter si st centre neck. Make another buttonhole on next 2 rows, work 13 rows, end- ing nt sleeve edge, Shoulder Shaping

Change to No. 14 needles, join un cotton threaded, with beads,

1st Row: Cast off 5 sts, K next P1, fed 1: repeat from *

There re four strict rutes to We followen when knitting gar- sents with Coats Mercer-Crochet cotton.

Kalt firmly and evenly......5 Prepare 7

Tension sample before commencing Use garment. Press to shape and given mensurments while damp. Sew neatly to achieve smooth scam ca

To achieve a fm, regular len- sion, the stitches must be tight

un the needles, To obtain this,

wind the yarn iwice round the Hitle finger and never stop knit- ting in the middle of a row.

Note:

Tension Sample.

knit a

15,

to fast fists, 11, KA.

2nd Row: KB, P to end.

3rd Row: Cast of 5 sis, R

next 10, PT, * P3, bend 1; repeat

from to las 8 sts, KS,

4th Row: K8, P to end.

5th Row: Cast off 5 gfs, K next

*

P1, bad 1; repeat from

4 is P1. K8.

Oh Now: K3, rasi oft 2 ss, K

next 2. P to end.

at,

lest

B

off.

7th Row: Cost oft 5 mis, K next

Pi, bend 1; repeat from to

rts, K3, east on 2 tx, 33.

How KO, P to end. Cast

Back Opening (Left Side)

Spets of stitch holder on to No. 13 needles, cast on 8 stu, K to end,

1st Row to last 8 sts, K&. zad Row: K. Repent these last 2 rows unti It is most important

work measures same as Right tension sumple first, as on it will side, ending at sleeve edge. depend the accuracy of the final measurements, Work a tension Shoulder Shaping sample, 2 11. (5 cm.) square, following the pattern.

Change to No. Dip the

14 needles. sample in water or a slight starch Join an callon threaded with solution, roll in a towel to re- bunds. move the surplus” moisture, then Int Row: Cast of 5 sts, P to pin It out, wrong side upwards, last 8 ets, Kd. on a piece of graph puper, matching the striaght of the knit. ting to the vertical and horizontal lines of the graph paper. Press Drmly with a medium hot iron on a dry cloth unt. the sample is dry, Count oui and mark with ping in. (2,5 cm.) vertin

2nd Row: K6, P1, bead 1: repont train * to last 15 sta, K15, 3rd Row; Cast off 5 sts, P to last #als, KB.

4th Row: K8, PI, • Pi, brad 1; repeat from " to Inst 11 sts. PI, KIO.

5th Row: Cast on 5 sts, P to

eally and horizontally in the last slɛ, KB,

7th Row: Cast off 5 sis, P ̧to` last six, K8.

Bih Row: K8, P1, P1, bead 1; repeat from last si, KI.

9th Row: P to instasis, KI. Cast off,

FRONT

Work as for Back until work measures 131⁄2 in. (34.3 cm.). Neck Shaping

K70, cast of 36 (44, 82), K to end, continue on these 70 sts.

1st Row: P.

2nd Row: Cast off 2 sla, K to end,.

-Repeat these 2 roweruntil 2 sts remain. Cast off.

Join colton al neck edge to remaining 70 sta

Jst Row: Cast off 2 sis, P to

centre of the sample. If the uth Row: KB, PI, bend 1; number of stitches, and rows is repeat from to last 5 sis, K5.-end.

2nd Row: XC.

5th Now: P2, bead 1, P3; Repeat these lost 2 rows unth repent from to last 2 sts, bead sts remalo, Cast off,

1, P2.

BEADED YOKE

Pla out

plece separately. Darp and press. (Do not press -ribbing).

7th Row: As 3rd row. 8th Row: As 5th row,

✩

Even On Sark The Money-Bug Gets You

SC any serious

By VERONICA PAPWORTH

the

CRATCH

"Then you remember my artist several West End actors....No, City-bound gentleman friend Mervyn. He came over honestly, I'm not fooling.

to settle with a contract waiting for the 8.16 train a brewery to do one drawing a devil all night-then off they

from 10WO would worlc Uke and what do you find? Just werk at 30 poudes a week. Well, would go, to be seen below the surface lurks a with the Channel Islands tax town, after a couple of hours in

pioneer Boy Scout longing wab'a gift,

to be lot out.

Give him fall a chance to get jaway from it all-to find an and in the sun, an acre or two He knows he would like it.

of land, and a cow,

I have been talking to one who tried it. His name in Edward Skinner,

Ideal life

We met firsį 10 years ago an Little Sark-a few square miles

of blessed plot set, if I remem- ber rightly, In ᄆ turbulent sea.

"But could he do it? No. "I would be round at hi cottage early in my dressing- Kown haminering on the door:

around

bed, fust resling' between shows,

"Me, too-taking it cozy. "Hoavens, whaï a focade."

Now Mr Skinner is a success

The boat goes today, old boy, in the tough business world, Come on now, it's only a coupla

of hours' work. Gel on with it' But he couldn't.

"We were all too relaxed

that was our trouble,

Notting

in the world to needle us.

Stimulated

"Any regrets?" I asked him.

see, I niwnys meant to try it— "No," said Mr Skinner"You and I have,"

MINES a woman's world-

"I would probably have been M and what fun it in,

remarkably there still, but Adrian Seligman

was in Sark filming and he per-la a well-packed week I'VE He had had a tough war in suaded me to go off to Barbados, joke of balloon-backed chemise

10 make

SEEN Wgh winds making a dresses, jusi as I predicted they

L

the Army, hnd seen enough of where ho "Civilisation," and planned to Christopher Columbus, become a writer.

"It was fascinating yei would. Not one woman longed to get back to Sark. You hundred can "get away with With a pretty wife, a collage see, my old sow was due to make a short, bag-shaped dress, at 103. n week, a typewriter, and the supreme Enerifee. I practically no income tax, he needed.. Once back I found I write and state me for "know- And don't anybody bother to seemed to me to have the ideal had caught the meney-making ing" current fashion, I'll con

'bug. I had been stimulated-tinue to knock anything that

set up.

מסאר

He had grown a beard and even wanted to work.

"So made inquiries for a cow.

we went in for flower farming succeeded for years, then hit upon the hottest,

Goodness, how I envied her

the boat for the maluland.

the wife, I mean-as I boarded

suffered "lelanditis."

makes fools of ue,

+

two TVE FOUND a shoe shop where I can order a B summer in 84 years and failed. (medium) filing for my right "By this time we had taken foot and a C (wide) for my

For

I have thought of them many over a bigger house, In three left fool at a cost' of 80s, extra Umes since with envy. and wecke we converted to an hotel, per pale.

years I'va many attacks of You should have seen me, thought this should be possible.

plumping up the cushions and I have remembered the step- emptying tho ashtrays the And don't anybody bother to ping stones to that tiny paradise perfect butler.

call me a freak. Of course I -the Hitle, low house, tho "We had a little room where age. Me and thousands like me. peace, the nothingness.

we used to go to sleep on old

A gift....

bulb boxes — exhausted, But

i got us out of tho' red.

VE FOUND time to con- sider the and ease (reported "Then suddenly, after eight in the British Modical Journal) 10th Row: P3 (1, 3), P2 tog.again last week.

Then, quite by chance, we met year, we looked at each other of the woman who transferred her affections from George to and said, 'Let's go back.” PS; repeal from to last

"Oh, those first red busca in have visited a tattooist before she Fred, but was foolish enotah to (10, 6) sts, P2 tog, P4 (8, 4).

Gone, was the old seaman's November

that lovely sweater, the board, and the lazy smutty tog

elianged her mind-an emotional 11th Row: P.

that beautiful manner. Mr Skinner's desert bus-ey ancll..

crisis that resulted in hospitalizo- Island dream wRS OVE

slit brings lian and skin grafting to sub- tears to my cyca."

stitute the name.

12th and every alternate Row:

13th Row: F4 (4, 3), repeat

Thread approx. 400 beuds on In a ball of cotton. (When these P. beads are knitted off, break cot-

en and thread on another 400 from on first row to last 3 beads). Push beads well down (3, 2) sis, P3 (8, 2). cotton them with right side of Front facing, pick up and knit 177 (185, 193) als, found front yoke, back.

•

Art Bow: P3, 31 3 sts purt wise, push up 7 beads, P1: re- prat from to last 2 sts, Pa.

P.

2nd and every alternate Row:

Ard Row: P1, P3, bead 1; reput from to lost 4 sts, P4.

15th Row: P2 (2, 1), repeat

from. on 3rd row to last (5, 4) ets, PG (5, 4),

17th, Row: P3 (3, 2), repeat from on 5th row to last 4 (4,3) ets, bond 1, P3 (3, 2).

19th Row: As 15th row, 21st Row: As 17th row.

22ua Bow: P3 (1, 3), • P2 tog.

3; repeat from to last 5 (0,5) st. P2 tog, P3 (7, 3),

Change to No. 14 needles. Nook Edge

1st Row: P1, P1, bead 2; repeat from * to last 2 sts,, P2

End Bow: P.

.. Brd Low: P2, P1, bead 1;

repeat to last 3 sts, P3.

4th Bow P.M

Report these Hut 4 rows ofven more.

Cost Gif.

ARM BANDS

:

Back stitch shoulder near13. Measure 8 in, (20.8 cm,} from shoulder down front and 8 in. (20.5 cm.) down back at sleeve edges and mark with plas.

With No. 14 needles and right ride of work facing, (using cot- ton threaded with beads) pick up and kalt 185 sta from pin to pin.

Purl back.

1st Row: P1, * ́Pl, bend 1; repeat from to last 2 sts, P2,

2nd Row: K2. tog, P to just 2 sta, K2 tog.

Itepeat these last 2 rows 5 times more. Cast off,

̈TO MAKE UP

Back stitch side scares, and ends of arm banda, Stlich down under flap of back opening. Sow on buttons.

Press seams. ·

"What was it like?" I asked. Tell aft What mode you come back?"

"To begin with," he said, "It was glorious. But the terrible thing about not having to work

that one slowly loses urge to.

the

Night shift

Did George sparo a thought for her? Was Fred suitably surprised? Where did it Happen and how did it end?.

And what did he do when he got back?

"I mode Swiss rolls on a night shift for five months-me and in the B.M.J.

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