MATERIALS: 3½ ounces of any suitable wool, a pair of No. 2 knitting needles, 1½ yards narrow ribbon, a steel crochet hook.

MEASUREMENTS: Length without shoulder straps, 25in.; width all round, 30in.

Editor note: this has been classified as a sport weight due to the rows per inch. Usually a fingering weight yarn is about 8 sts to an inch and 10 rows but this may be knitted with smaller needle on a sport weight yarn to give fewer rows to the inch.