My Knitting Book (Second Series)

Chapter 32: A Border for each D’Oyley.

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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.

A Border for each D’Oyley.

Knit six plain rows.

Seventh row—knit three; bring the thread forward, knit two together.—Repeat, except on the last three stitches, which knit plain.

Eighth row—pearl knitting, except on the first three, and last three, stitches, which are to be knitted plain.

Repeat the seventh, and eighth, rows, making altogether, twelve rows from the commencement.

The above forms the upper border of the D’Oyley. The side borders are included in the directions given for each row of the centre patterns.—The lower border—worked the same (reversed) as the upper—it appears unnecessary to repeat.

N.B. The pattern of the centre is always commenced on the thirteenth row of each D’Oyley.