My Knitting Book (Second Series)

Chapter 17: Open Stripe Pattern for a Tidy, etc.

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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.

Open Stripe Pattern for a Tidy, etc.

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

First row—knit two together,—four times; bring the thread forward, knit one,—seven times; bring the thread forward, knit two together; knit two together,—three times; knit one.—Repeat.

Second row—pearl knitting.

Repeat these two rows, until a piece be worked of the required size; then,—finish by casting off every twenty-three stitches, and dropping every twenty-fourth stitch, to form the open stripe.