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Show Stick To The Directions In Knitting- I a bEliiMS Incredible, with tho careful and accurato directions Sjvon out by tho Red Cross for ' Idler knltted sarmont3 for 'tho aol-llfiv aol-llfiv . mtuly W0Icn so firmly bc-ldo bc-ldo superiority of their own " hnv thoy turn m Garments that ao to bo pulled apart and romadp cioro they can bo put to use. This W . DOt app,y t0 tho well-meaning out Inexpert knitters who make mis-kcs mis-kcs In following directions, but to "Pcrlcnccd knitters who llko to incorporate in-corporate their own Ideas in the work ney turn out, perhaps Imagining that nco "variety in the spico of life," tii . a"(1 orlK'nal designs In knit- ng win appeal to tho future wearers or their socks, sweaters and wristlets. . Mouthful knitters. do not seem to be ihe ones who yield to this passion for personal expression In their achievements. achieve-ments. Tho young women follow directions di-rections zealously and with painstaking painstak-ing care; It Is the older women who consider thcmselvos past-mnstors in the art of tho clicking ncedlos, who turn In most of tho unique and hybrid garments. For instance, there camo Into a Red Cross unit thp other day a pair of socks that probably seemed to tho old lady who mado them models of beauty and intorcsi. They were mado of mustard color and wlno color wool, tho foot part being wino color whilo tho mustard tops, which wore long enough to reach to tho knee were purlod all tho way down cloar to the beginning of the too. Very llve- ly looking golf stockings they were, but scarcely marching socks according accord-ing to tho requirements of tho Rod Cross. Another pair of socks, in white wool, had "U. S. A. rather badly knitted around the leg, below the purled tops, and It Is disheartening, say tho women at Red Cross headquarters, to soo tho number of socks much too long In the leg and much too short In tho foot. Socks aro not dlfllcult to knit and most women prefer to knit them to loss Interesting sweaters, mulllers or wristlets: but by all moans let the sock knitter follow directions with ab-soluto ab-soluto accuracy and not seek to infuse in-fuse temoramcnt -or personality into tha, footwear of the soldier. |