For your sub-deb. daughter … A flowered dirndl, VERY Continental in design—and charmingly youthful for your schoolgirl daughter’s playtime hours—is this dirndl knitted in soft, bright blue. Like flowers in a field, gay blossoms of red, gold, and dark green are strewn over the short puffed sleeves and in rows around the hem of the wide, gathered skirt.

YOUTHFUL AND FLATTERING—a flowered dirndl for growing daughter. It is knitted in soft blue with flowers done in red, gold, and dark green. If blue isn’t your daughter’s favorite color, then try some other tone and another color combination for the flowers. Perhaps daughter, herself, would like to do the knitting.

MATERIALS: 1 lb. 13 oz. Paton’s Super Crepe Yam (equivalent to 3-ply), 1 lb. 8 oz. blue (shade 2028), 2 oz. yellow (shade 02938), 2 oz. green (shade 2131), 1 oz. red (shade 2139), two No. 9 [3.75mm] and a set of four No. 12 [2.75mm] Beehive knitting needles, measured by the Beehive gauge, 10 yards of round white elastic.

Measurements: Width all round at underarm, 32-36 inches; length from shoulder to hem, 46 inches; length of sleeve from underarm, 7 inches.

Tension: To get these measurements, it is absolutely necessary to work at a tension to produce 7 stitches to the inch in width, on No. 9 [3.75mm]needles.