LADIES '
JACKET
WITHOUT
SLEEVES .
BY MRS . JANE WEAVER.
THIS jacket is worked with red fleecy wool in a sort of crochet a tricater ; the strips, which form the trimming, are knitted with red Berlin wool. The back and front are worked separately, and crocheted together on the shoulders and under the arms. Cut a good paper pattern from a bodice and try it on, then begin to work the back part at the upper edge on a sufficiently long foundation chain, and work the first double row as follows : 1st row: Make one loop in every foundation chain, and throw the wool forward after every loop. 2nd row: Cast off the stitches on the needle with the next stitch formed by throwing the wool forward. In the first row of the second double row take up together one loop in the long chain, and in the stitch of the following stitches formed by throwing the wool forward in the preceding row, and throw the wool forward. At the beginning of every double row miss the first stitch formed by throwing the wool forward, and throw the wool forward after the first selvedge-stitch ; the increasing and decreasing takes place at the end of the rows from the paper pattern. When you have arrived at the lower edge, crochet one row of slip-stitches on the last row. Each front part begins likewise at the upper edge, decreasing at the place marked for the breast-pleats on
the paper pattern. The front edge of the front parts must be straight. When the back and front parts are completed, crochet them together on the wrong side with slip-stitches, and fasten the knitted bands and the waistband. The latter is terminated at the bottom with vandykes. Begin to work the same with thick, fleecy wool ; cast on ten stitches and knit backward and forward twenty plain rows, increasing one stitch at the end of every other row on one side of the knitting, so that the twentieth row has twenty stitches. In the following twenty rows decrease in the same proportion as you increased before. Knit on in the same manner till the waistband is wide enough, ( on our pattern eight vandykes, ) edge the straight border with a row of double stitches in black wool, and the vandyked border with small chain-stitch scallops. Then sew the waistband on the jacket, letting the vandykes hang down. A similar narrower strip of vandykes edge the armhole and neck. Cast on five stitches for each of these strips ; each strip in the middle is nine stitches wide. The strips which trim the jacket are knitted with Berlin wool the long way ; they are edged with chainstitch scallops in black wool, and ornamented with jet beads from illustration. They are one inch wide. At the front edge of the jacket sew on hooks and eyes for fastening it. This jacket is both tasty and useful. 143
