My Knitting Book (Second Series)

Chapter 30: Fringe for a Shawl.

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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.

Fringe for a Shawl.

This forms a very pretty fringe for the preceding shawl pattern.

Cast on twelve stitches with scarlet German wool—used double.—Needles, No. 6.

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

Every row is the same. When finished, cast off three patterns; and unravel the remainder for the fringe.

Before unravelling, the knitting should be thoroughly damped, and afterwards dried before a fire. This will cause the wool to curl, and form a better fringe. Each loop should be knotted, close to the knitting.

It is advisable to knit this fringe in one length. It may be easily made to sit well round the point of the shawl, by fulling it a little, in the sewing on.