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Size 8 Years

Materials: Chadwick's Red Heart Lustre Knitting Worsted, 8 skeins (1¼ oz. skeins).
Milward's Casein knitting pins, 1 pair No. 4 (3½ mm. size).
9 buttons.

Gauge: 6 sts make 1 inch; 8 rows make 1 inch.

Back. Starting at bottom, cast on 69 sts. 1st row: K2, * k l, p l, k l, p 2. Repeat from * across, ending row with k 2. 2nd row: K 2, * k 2, p 3. Repeat from * across, ending row with k 2. Repeat these 2 rows alternately until piece measures 9 inches.

To Shape Armholes: Bind off 4 sts at beginning of each of next 2 rows; then dec. 1 st at end of each row until 49 sts remain. Work straight until piece measures 5 inches from 1st row of armhole shaping. To shape shoulders, bind off 5 sts at beginning of each row until 19 sts remain. Bind off.

Right Front. Starting at bottom, cast on 49 sts and work as for Back until piece measures 9 inches, making a buttonhole, 3 sts in from front edge, after the 1st ½ inch and every 2 inches thereafter until 7 buttonholes in all are made. (To make a buttonhole, on one row bind off 2 sts; on next row cast on 2 sts to replace those bound off).

To Shape Armholes: Starting at underarm side, with wrong side of work toward you (the side with the 2 stockinette sts together is the wrong side), bind off 4 sts; then dec. 1 st every other row, at armhole edge, until 37 sts remain. Work straight until piece measures 4 inches from 1st row of armhole shaping. On next row, starting at front edge, bind off 10 sts (thus starting neck shaping), and continue across. Hereafter, dec. 1 st at neck edge each row until 15 sts remain. To shape shoulder, starting at armhole edge, bind off 5 sts every other row 3 times.

Left Front. Work exactly as for Right Front, omitting buttonholes and reversing shapings.

Sleeves. Starting at bottom, cast on 34 sts and work in ribbing of k 1, p 1, for 2 inches, increasing 10 sts at equal intervals apart on last row (44 sts). Hereafter work in pattern until sleeve measures 13 inches in all. To shape top of sleeve, bind off 2 sts at beginning of each of next 4 rows; then dec. 1 st at end of each row until 10 sts remain. Bind off.

Sew up underarm and shoulder seams. Sew up sleeve seams and sew sleeves in.

Collar. Starting at one end, cast on 19 sts, and work in pattern until Collar measures 1 inch less than neck edge. Sew Collar all around neck edge so that edges of both Fronts extend ½ inch.

Pockets. Make 2. Cast on 17 sts and work in pattern for 2 inches, but making k 1 at each end instead of k 2.

Sew on pockets as in illustration. Sew on buttons to correspond with buttonholes.