base, which allows an i-cord tail to be knit in one with the mouse.

KFB: Knit into the Front and Back of the stitch to increase.

CB6: Slip the next three stitches onto a cable needle and hold in 

back of the work.  Knit the next three stitches, then knit the three from the needle.

Cast on 6 stitches, leaving a tail long enough to use for sewing up.

Row 1: P1, KFB, K2, KFB, P 1 (8 stitches)

Row 2: KFB, P6, K1 (9 stitches)

Row 3: KFB, CB6, P2 (10 stitches)

Row 4: KFB, K, P6, K2 (11 stitches)

Row 5: KFB, P, K6, P2, K1 (12 stitches)

Row 6: KFB, K2, P6, K2, P1 (13 stitches)

Row 7: KFB, P2, K6, P2, K, P (14 stitches)

Row 8: KFB, K3, P6, K3, P1 (15 stitches)

Row 9: KFB, K, P2, CB6, P2, K, P, K (16 stitches)

Row 10: KFB, P, K3, P6, K3, P, K (17 stitches)

Row 11: KFB, P, K, P2, K6, P2, K, P, K, P (18 stitches)

Row 12: KFB, K, P, K3, P6, K3, P, K, P (19 stitches)

Row 13: KFB, K, P, K, P2, K6, P2, (K, P) twice, K (20 stitches)

Row 14: KFB, P, K, P, K3, P6, K3, (P, K) twice (21 stitches)

Row 15: KFB, (P, K) twice, P2, CB6, P2, (K, P) three times, (22 stitches)

Row 16: KFB, (K, P) twice, K3, P6, K3, (P, K) twice, P (23 stitches)

Row 17: KFB, (K, P) twice, K, P2, K6, P2, (K, P), three times, K (24 stitches)

Row 18: KFB, (P, K) twice, P, K3, P6, K3, (P, K) three times (25 stitches)

Row 19: KFB, (P, K) three times, P2, K6, P2, (K, P) four times (26 stitches)

Row 20: KFB, (K, P) three times, K3, P6, K3, (P, K) three times, P (27 stitches)

Row 21: KFB, (K, P) three times, K, P2, CB6, P2, (K, P) four times, K (28 stitches)

Row 22: KFB, (P, K) three times, P, K3, P6, K3, (P, K) four times (29 stitches)

Row 23: KFB, (P, K) four times, P2, K6, P2, (K, P) five times (30 stitches)

Row 24: (P, K) four times, P, K3, P6, K3, (P, K) four times, P (30 stitches)

Row 25: BO in pattern first 13 st, K5, P2, (K, P) five times (17) 

Row 26: BO in pattern all but last four st.  K4.

Work i-cord tail on remaining four stitches to desired length.

(To make i-cord, you work the stitches on a double pointed needle.  

When you've finished a row, rather than turning the stitches, you slide 

them to the other end of the needle and start knitting into the stitch at 

the opposite end of the row from the yarn in use.  This creates a little 

tube as the stitches are pulled over.)

I work these on double pointed needles; they're well suited for the 

small number of stitches, and I don't need to get out different ones for the tail.