Polo Neck Insert - June '05

This time, reader Theresa Holbrook has written to pass on her way of knitting polo inserts and this one has a clever back opening.

Dear Anne
I've always liked polo neck inserts, but not the way they spoil a 'hair-do' when taking them off, so I've devised the enclosed sample. Cold weather is always around the corner, so I thought it might be a useful item for the magazine. I'm a great friend of Doris Coutts and I took over the running of Sandown Machine Knitting Club when she gave up. I've learned a great deal from her.

Yours sincerely
Theresa Holbrook
Sandown, Isle of Wight

Polo Neck Insert

MATERIALS

Approx 60 g of any soft 4 ply.
2 small buttons.

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METHOD

Using Tension 5/5, cast on 161 sts in 1x1 rib and K 3 circular rows. Set RC at 000.
Change to Tension 6·· and K 10 rows. Change to Tension 6 and K 10 rows.
Change to Tension 5· and K 10 rows. Change to T4·· and K 10 rows.
Change to T4 and K 40 rows. RC shows 80. Transfer sts to main bed.
Set RC at 000. Change to Tension 6 and inc 1 st at each end of every 5th row, 5 times. K 5 rows. RC shows 30. Transfer sts for picot edge. K 5 rows.
Change to Tension 10 and K 1 loose row then latch off.

TO MAKE UP

Turn up picot edge and slip stitch down. Turn over polo collar to right side and catch down at corners. Crochet two loops (approximately 9 chain) and sew on to right hand side. Sew on two buttons to correspond with loops on left hand side. Give hem a light steam. The hem tucks into the neck of jumper and this is a useful way of using up ends of cones. My sample was knitted on a Knitmaster 700, but tensions can be adjusted to other standard gauge machines by reducing the tension by two dots each time.

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