Knitted Hug-Me-Tight

MATERIALS

SUNLIGHT four-fold Germantown

2 skeins one color

5 skeins different color

1 pair Bone Knitting Needles, No. 6

1 6-inch Bone Crochet Hook, No. 4

2 Button-molds, 1 inch

INSTRUCTIONS

(Written for white and pink.)

This dainty garment is knitted in the plain stitch with pink yarn. The white border and the white belt in the back have a pink edge and are also knitted. The belt is fastened to the back with crocheted buttons. This garment can be worn as a jacket merely by buttoning it different ways or with end crossed on breast as hug-me-tight.

Start at bottom of back, use pink yarn and cast on 50 stitches.

Knit plain forward and back. Two rows make 1 rib. Knit 63 ribs for length of back. Knit 17 stitches on next row and turn (leaving the remaining 33 stitches on a spare needle). Repeat making 63 ribs for shoulder and length of front part and bind off.

Bind off at neck 16 stitches and make the other side to correspond.

Border: Use white yarn, begin in 12th rib from bottom of back and pick up (on right side of work) 1 stitch for each rib along the side of knitted piece to end of front part. Take up 3 stitches in corner and then 1 stitch in each chain at bottom of front part, turn. Keep all the stitches on 1 needle. Knit as before and make 5 ribs, increase 2 stitches in the corner for each rib. Make 1 rib in pink (1st row will be on right side) and bind off.

Knit border on other side of vest to correspond.

Pick up the stitches same as before around neck and along the front edges, starting in last rib of the white at bottom of front. Make border same as before, knit the pink edge around the corner and connect it to the edge at bottom.

Belt: Cast on 4 stitches (knit just a little tight) and increase 1 stitch on each side until you have 10 stitches. Make about 47 ribs. Length of belt must be 1 inch shorter than width of back at bottom. Make pink edge as before all around belt.

Draw together end of border in back and sew the point of belt to this place with a crocheted button.

Button: Cover the mold with either pink yarn or cloth. Use pink yarn and make a chain of 2 stitches. Make 6 single crochet in 1st stitch of the chain. Work around, making 2 single crochet in each stitch on 1st row, then 2 single crochet in every other stitch on the next row. Make 1 row plain. Run a thread through edge of circle, put mold in, draw together and fasten.

Crochet 1 loop in each corner of front parts on the wrong side and fasten them in the white near the pink edge. Button the sides to the back. Run a string across back under the belt and fasten belt loosely to back in middle.

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