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My Knitting Book (Second Series)

Chapter 19: Feather Pattern for a 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.

Feather Pattern for a Tidy.

Cast on nineteen stitches for each pattern, and four over, for two stitches at each edge.—Needles, No. 22.—Cotton, No. 18.

First row—plain knitting.

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

Third row—pearl knitting.

Fourth row—plain knitting.

Fifth row—pearl knitting.

Commence again, as at second row.