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My Knitting Book (Second Series)

Chapter 50: Pine Apple Pattern 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.

Pine Apple Pattern Bag.

Second-sized netting silk. Five needles, No. 23.—Each pattern occupies fourteen stitches.

Cast fifty stitches on each of three needles, and forty-six on the fourth.

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

Second round—plain knitting.

Third round—same as first,—knitting two at the commencement.

Fourth round—plain knitting.

Fifth round—same as first,—knitting three at the commencement.

Sixth round—plain knitting.

Seventh round—same as first,—knitting four at the commencement.

Eighth, Ninth, and Tenth rounds—plain knitting.

Eleventh round—knit four;(a) slip one; knit two together, pass the slip-stitch over them; knit five; bring the silk forward, knit one; bring the silk forward, knit five.—Repeat from (a).

Twelfth round—plain knitting.

Thirteenth round—same as eleventh,—knitting three at the commencement.

Fourteenth round—plain knitting.

Fifteenth round—same as eleventh,—knitting two at the commencement.

Sixteenth round—plain knitting.

Seventeenth round—same as eleventh,—knitting one at the commencement.

Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth rounds—plain knitting.

Commence again, as at first round.