My Knitting Book (Second Series)

Chapter 48: Border for a Quilt.

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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.

Border for a Quilt.

Wool and needles to correspond with the centre of the quilt.—Cast on nine stitches.

First row—knit three; bring the wool forward, turning it round the needle, pearl two together,—three times.

Second row—turn the wool round the needle, pearl two together,—three times; knit one; cast on six other stitches; knit two.

Third row—knit nine; turn the wool round the needle, pearl two together,—three times.

Fourth row—turn the wool round the needle, pearl two together,—three times; knit nine.

Fifth row—cast off six stitches, knitting the two first together; there should now be the same number of stitches as at the commencement.—Repeat from first row.