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My Knitting Book (Second Series)

Chapter 21: Point de l’Echelle, for a Tidy, etc.
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.

Point de l’Echelle, for a Tidy, etc.

Cast on thirty-six stitches for every two patterns, and one over, for the centre or dividing stitch between each pattern.—Needles, No. 16.—Cotton, No. 12.

First row—pearl three;(a) pass the thread over, knit three; knit two together; knit three; knit two together; knit three; bring the thread forward, pearl five.—Repeat from (a).—Finish with—pearl three.

Second row—pearl knitting, except the stitches pearled in the previous row, which are to be knitted plain.

Third row—pearl three;(b) knit one; bring the thread forward, knit three; knit two together; knit one; knit two together; knit three; bring the thread forward, knit one; pearl five.—Repeat from (b).—Finish with—pearl three.

Fourth row—same as second.

Fifth row—pearl three;(c) knit two; bring the thread forward, knit three; knit three together; knit three; bring the thread forward, knit two; pearl five.—Repeat from (c).—Finish with—pearl three.

Sixth row—the same as second.

Commence again, as at first row.

N.B. In the above pattern, when casting off, every nineteenth stitch is to be dropped.