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My Knitting Book (Second Series)

Chapter 35: 3. Cable Pattern.
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.

III.
Cable Pattern.

Cast on eighty-two stitches; that is,—eighteen for the two borders, and sixty-four for the centre. Each centre pattern occupies eleven stitches.

Knit the upper border, as before directed. Commence the side borders, and centre, as follows;—

First row—knit three; bring the thread forward, knit two together,—three times;(a) knit one; pass three stitches on to a third needle, always keeping that needle in front; knit the next three stitches; knit the three stitches that were passed on to the third needle; knit two; bring the thread forward, knit two together.—Repeat from (a).—The last two stitches of the sixth pattern are to be omitted, to prevent the open work of the pattern, and the open border, coming together.—Finish with—bring the thread forward, knit two together,—three times; knit three.

Second row—knit three; pearl seven;(b) pearl nine; turn the thread round the needle, pearl two together.—Repeat from (b).—Finish with—pearl fourteen; knit three.

Third row—knit three; bring the thread forward, knit two together,—three times;(c) knit nine: bring the thread forward, knit two together.—Repeat from (c).—Finish with—knit nine; bring the thread forward, knit two together,—three times; knit three.

Work the second row three times, and the third row twice; then, commence again, as at first row of centre pattern, alternating correctly the two rows of the borders.