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A Sleeveless Sweater
A Sleeveless Sweater
(from
Handbook of Wool Knitting and Crochet, 1918)
(Explanation of
terms and stitches used)
A sleeveless sweater,
as pretty as it is comfortable,
requires six skeins of
Shetland floss and a pair of No.
5 amber needles. Pink floss
was chosen for the model, but
any preferred color may be
substituted.
Cast on 85 stitches; knit
in basket-stitch, as follows:
1. * Knit 5, purl 5; repeat
across, ending with knit 5.
2. Purl 5, knit 5; repeat
across, ending with purl 5.
Repeat these two rows
twice, making 6 rows in all;
then to change the check knit
7th row like 2d, 8th like 1st,
repeat twice, and again change
the check by repeating from
1st row. Continue until the
border is five checks deep, or
30 rows.
Knit across plain and purl
back for 84 rows; narrow 1
stitch each side every other
row, three times, for the armhole,
leaving 79 stitches on
your needle, and giving 89
rows from the border. Knit
across plain and purl back for
38 rows; putting these stitches
on a large safety-pin for convenience,
knit 31, bind off 17
stitches for neck, and on the
remaining 31 stitches, knit 6
rows back and forth, or 3 ribs,
to give the effect of a seam on
the shoulder. Continue the
front, knitting across and
purling back, adding a stitch
toward the front each time to
make the neck V-shaped, for
38 rows; then add 1 stitch at
the armhole, and next row
cast on 8 stitches for underarm.
Do not widen further
toward the front, but continue
knitting forward and purling
back for 85 rows; then
make the border of 30 rows,
five checks wide, to correspond
with the back, and bind
off. Knit the other front to
correspond.
Pick up the stitches around
armhole, 80 in all, and knit 5,
purl 5 for 6 rows, making an
edge of checks; bind off. Pick
up the stitches on front, to the
center of back of neck, about
175 in all, make a row of checks
to correspond with the arm,
and bind; work a border in
the same way on other side of
front, and sew neatly at back
of neck, also join the underarm
seams, taking care to
match the checks of the
border perfectly.
For the belt: Cast on 25
stitches, and proceed as directed
for the border until you
have the desired length; the
belt illustrated is 42 checks
long. Across one end crochet
3 chain loops, filling these with
doubles, and sew to the other
end three pearl buttons to
match. The belt is caught
along the top in the back, giving
the short-waisted effect.
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