My Knitting Book (Second Series)

Chapter 18: Another Tidy.

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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.

Another Tidy.

Cast on six stitches for each pattern, and four, for two edge stitches on either side.—Needles, No. 18.—Cotton, No. 14.

N.B. To prevent confusion, the edge stitches are omitted in the directions.

First row—knit two together; knit two; bring the thread forward, knit two together; bring the thread forward.—Repeat.

Second row—pearl knitting.

Repeat these two rows, three times.

Ninth row—knit three;(a) bring the thread forward, knit two together; bring the thread forward, knit two; knit two together.—Repeat from (a).

Tenth row—pearl knitting.

Repeat the last two rows, twice; and commence again, as at first row.