My Knitting Book (Second Series)

Chapter 25: Pretty Open Stitch for a Bag.

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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.

Pretty Open Stitch for a Bag.

Middle-sized netting silk.—Needles, No. 23.

Cast on six stitches for each pattern.—Forty-four patterns form an ordinary sized bag.

First round—bring the silk forward, slip one; knit two together, pass the slip-stitch over them; bring the silk forward, knit three.—Repeat.

Second round—plain knitting.

Third round—knit three;(a) bring the silk forward, slip one; knit two together, pass the slip-stitch over them; bring the silk forward, knit three.—Repeat from (a).—Finish with—bring the silk forward, slip one; knit two, pass the slip-stitch over them.—The latter operation prevents the round decreasing.

Fourth round—plain knitting.

Commence again, as at first round.