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My Knitting Book (Second Series)

Chapter 14: A Vandyke Edging.
By Miss Lambert
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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.

A Vandyke Edging.

Cast on twelve stitches.—Needles, No. 26.—Cotton, No. 20.

First row—slip one; knit two; bring the cotton forward, knit two together; bring the cotton forward twice, knit two together; knit five.

Second row—slip one; knit six; pearl one; knit two; bring the cotton forward, knit two together; knit one.

Third row—slip one; knit two; bring the cotton forward, knit two together; knit two; bring the cotton forward twice, knit two together; knit four.

Fourth row—slip one; knit five; pearl one; knit four; bring the cotton forward, knit two together; knit one.

Fifth row—slip one; knit two; bring the cotton forward, knit two together; knit four; bring the cotton forward twice, knit two together; knit three.

Sixth row—slip one; knit four; pearl one; knit six; bring the cotton forward, knit two together; knit one.

Seventh row—slip one; knit two; bring the cotton forward; knit two together; knit ten.

Eighth row—slip one; knit one, pass the slip-stitch over it; knit one, pass the stitch over it; knit one, pass the stitch over it; knit eight; bring the cotton forward, knit two together; knit one.

Commence again, as at first row.