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My Knitting Book (Second Series)

Chapter 15: Insertion Leaf-Pattern for Tidies
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.

Insertion Leaf-Pattern for Tidies

Cast on twenty-one stitches for each pattern.—Needles, No. 18—Cotton, No. 14.

First row—knit one; knit two together; bring the thread forward twice, knit two together; bring the thread forward, knit two together, taken at the back; knit three; pearl one; knit three; knit two together; bring the thread forward, knit two together; bring the thread forward twice, knit two together; knit one.

Second row—knit three; pearl one; knit one; pearl one; turn the thread round the needle, pearl two together; pearl two; knit one; pearl two; pearl two together; turn the thread round the needle, pearl one; knit one; pearl one; knit three.

Third row—knit one; knit two together; bring the thread forward twice, knit two together; knit two; bring the thread forward, knit two together, taken at the back; knit one; pearl one; knit one; knit two together; bring the thread forward, knit two; knit two together; bring the thread forward twice, knit two together; knit one.

Fourth row—knit three; pearl one; knit one; pearl three; turn the thread round the needle, pearl two together; knit one; pearl two together; turn the thread round the needle, pearl three; knit one; pearl one; knit three.

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

Sixth row—knit three; pearl one; knit one; pearl five; knit one; pearl five; knit one; pearl one: knit three.

Commence again, as at first row.

A very pretty insertion may be made, by knitting one pattern only of the above.