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A practical manual that opens with a concise glossary of knitting terms and guidance on a standard filiére (gauge), then explains basic operations such as casting on, increasing, decreasing, ribbing, and turning. The main body presents numerous reworked patterns and stitch diagrams for household and wearable items — quilts, shawls, baby hoods and bonnets, caps, bags, purses, edgings, doyleys and Shetland motifs — offering varied textures, borders, insertions, and raised or open stitches to aid home knitters in producing decorative and utilitarian pieces.
Needles, No. 2.—Double German wool.
Cast on fifty stitches.—Knit eighty plain rows; sixty of which are to be rolled up to form the front.
Sew together three inches of the cast-on part; and draw up the remainder for the crown.
Cast on fifty stitches for the hood, and work forty plain rows.
When finished, it may be lined with white silk or satin, and trimmed with narrow satin riband.