A correspondent writes:—I_ enclose directions for making Balaclava caps which I think many would be glad to knit.
Required:—Two bone knitting needles, No. 10., five skeins of single Berlin wool, and one skein of a different colour single Berlin wool. Bay 65 skein wool is brown, and one skein wool is green, then with the brown wool cast on 90 stitches, and knit in ribbed knitting, 3 purl and 3 plain for 12 rows. Then knit two rows with green, then 2 with brown, then 6 with green, @ brown, green, then 2% brown, Next row of brown knit 72 stitches, still in ribs of 3, then turn and knit 54. You have 18 stitches left unknitted at the end of each needle. You can either slip them on to two spare needles or leave them where they are, they will not be wanted again at present. While you go on knitting the headpiece which continues straight on in ribs of three with 54 stitches until 36 rows are knitted.
For head, turn and rib 51, turn and knit 48, turn and knit 45, turn and knit 42, turn and knit 39, turn and knit 36, turn and knit 33, turn and knit 30, turn and knit 27, turn and knit 2%, turn and knit 21, turn and knit 18, turn and kn't to the end of the needle, and pick up 18 stitches down the side of the headpiece, knitting each stitch as you pick it up, turn and knit to end of needle and pick up 18 stitches down the opposite side of the head pi You should now have 90 stitches on the needles, turn and knit 87, tum and knit 84, turn and knit 81, turn and knit 78, turn and knit}; 7, turn and knit 72, turn snd knit 69, turn and knit 66, turn and 63, turn and knit 60, turn and knit 57, turn and knit 54, turn and knit all along, and knit the 18 stitches off the spare needle, turn and knit the row and the other 18 stitches. You have now 196 stitches on the needle. Knit seven rows 3 plain 3 purl with brown, 2 with green, two with brown, two with green, 2 with brown, 2 with green, 7 with brown, and cast off Yoonely. Sew sides together, then join under the chin.
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