Dresden Baby Coat
Materials Required:
3 skeins Bear Brand Saxony, 3-fold.
2 skeins green, Glossilla Rope, No. 264.
1 skein pink, Glossilla Rope, No. 200.
2 skeins blue, Glossilla Rope, No. 108.
1 pair amber knitting pins, No. 2 (10 in. long).
1 amber crochet hook, No. 2 (10 inches long).
(Note—These directions are based on 20 skeins to the box Saxony. If the “12 skeins to the box” wool is used the amount will be proportionately less.)
The yoke is made first. Chain 80 and work in afghan stitch (see Bear Brand Manual of Handiwork) for fifteen rows. The shoulders are next to be formed. Pick up the first 29 stitches and on them make 2 rows, then 2 more rows, on each of these rows picking up an extra stitch at the neck end; then with another ball of wool add a chain of 16 there and on the 47 stitches work 16 rows.
On the next row, work as follows: pick up perpendicular bar as usual then draw wool through stitch on needle, thus working off. Continue in this way until 18 stitches remain and on these stitches work the front tab. This should measure eleven inches, from the neck to end. Work off stitches, as before. Go back to neck and omitting 22 stitches there, work the second shoulder on the remaining 29 stitches, taking care to keep them opposites.
For the lower part of jacket, using the knitting pins, cast on 140 stitches. Knit three rows.
Fourth row: with crochet hook make 1 d. c. (see page 6) in first stitch, * 1 d. c. through the next 2 stitches (drawing up the loop high), keep stitches on pin, pick up a loop through the back of the same two stitches then slip them off pin and repeat from * ending row with 1 d. c. in the final stitch. These four rows constitute one pattern and are repeated over and over until sixteen patterns have been made. The arm holes are next to be made. On the fourth row of next pattern make 1 d. c. then 15 clusters as usual, then run all the remaining stitches on a thread or extra pin and on these 31 stitches work eight short rows, in all, and bind off. Take 31 stitches from the end of thread and make second front to match first. Bind off 4 stitches at each end of the remaining stitches for the armhole and on the 70 stitches left, make the back the same length as the fronts.
Sleeve. Cast on 48 stitches and make 11 patterns and three extra rows of plain knitting: then slip on hook and make 9 rows of afghan stitch for the cuff. Work off. Make second sleeve like first and sew up.
Around the neck make a row of ribbon holes, as follows: * 1 d. c., ch. 1, skip 1 and repeat from * all across, make 1 row of s. c. and fasten off. Baste the lower part of jacket to the yoke, holding the extra fullness across the back and fronts evenly. Join to yoke with slip stitches worked on wrong side. Sew sleeves in place.
Work pearl edge on all the edges and around the yoke and top of cuffs, as follows: 1 s. c. around the post of foundation, ch. 3, wool over hook and pick up a loop through s. c. just made, wool over and pick up another loop in same place * skip 1 stitch on foundation, draw a loop around the next stitch and through all the loops on hook, ch. 3. Wool over and through the third ch. from hook, wool over and through the same place and repeat from *.
Embroider the Dresden figures, as illustrated.