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Size 2

Materials:
Chadwick's Red Heart Saxony, 6 balls (⅔ oz. balls).
Milward's Phantom Knitting Pins, 1 pair No. 2 (2¾ mm. size) and 1 pair No. 1 (2½ mm. size).
Milward's steel crochet hook No. 4.
4 pearl buttons.

Gauge: Pullover: 8 sts make 1 inch; 10 rows make 1 inch.
Pants: 9 sts make 1 inch; 12 rows make 1 inch.

PULLOVER

Back. Starting at bottom, with No. 2 needles cast on 86 sts and work in ribbing of k 1, p 1, for 1½ inches. Next row: P 3, * k 1, p 4. Repeat from * across, ending row with p 3. Following row: K 3, * k 4, p 1. Repeat from * across, ending row with k 3. These last 2 rows constitute the pattern. Work in pattern until piece measures 8½ inches in all.

To Shape Armholes: Bind off 2 sts at beginning of each of next 2 rows and 1 st at beginning of each of next 8 rows (74 sts). Work straight until piece measures 3 inches from 1st row of armhole shaping. Then bind off 16 sts at beginning of each of next 2 rows (42 sts). Work over these 42 sts in ribbing for ¾ inch. Bind off.

Front. Work exactly as for Back.

Sleeves. Starting at bottom, with No. 2 needles, cast on 45 sts and work in ribbing for 1¼ inches. Then work in pattern until piece measures 9½ inches in all, increasing 1 st at both ends of each row after the 1st inch of pattern and every inch thereafter. Bind off.

Sew up underarm seams. Sew up shoulder seams, leaving ¾ inch free at each side of neck edge. Make a ch-5 buttonloop on ribbing at both sides of front neck edge. Sew up sleeve seams and sew sleeves in. Sew on buttons to correspond with buttonloops.

PANTS

Back. Starting at top of waistband, with No. 1 needles cast on 99 sts and work in ribbing for 1½ inches. Then work in stockinette st (k 1 row, p 1 row) until piece measures 10½ inches in all. Then bind off loosely 6 sts at beginning of each row until 27 sts remain (thus shaping legs). Bind off loosely.

Front. Work exactly as for Back.

Sew up side seams. With right side of work toward you, beginning at crotch edge, pick up 84 sts all around leg shaping, and work in ribbing for ¾ inch. Bind off. Work other leg to correspond. Sew up crotch seams.

Suspenders. Pick up 10 sts, 2½ inches in from one seam on Front, and work in ribbing for 10 inches, making a buttonhole 4 sts in from end after 9½ inches. (To make a buttonhole, on one row bind off 2 sts; then, on next row, cast on 2 sts to replace those bound off.) Bind off. With crochet hook, work a row of s c all around suspender. Make another suspender to correspond, 2½ inches in from opposite seam.

Sew on buttons to correspond with buttonholes.