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My Knitting Book (Second Series)

Chapter 53: A Muff.
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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 Muff.

German wool, used double.—Needles, No. 8.—Cast on seventy-two stitches.

Knit one plain row.

Second row—bring the thread forward, knit two together.—Repeat.

Knit three plain rows.

Repeat the second row, alternately, with three plain rows, until six patterns be worked.

Knit five plain rows.

Repeat the second row, alternately, with one plain row,—each three times.

Knit twenty-three rows,—turning the wool round the needle, and pearling two together.

Knit five plain rows.

Repeat the second row, alternately, with one plain row,—each three times.

Knit four plain rows.

Repeat the second row, alternately, with three plain rows, until six patterns be worked, as at the commencement.

Knit one plain row, and cast off.

Join up the two sides; then stuff and line the muff in the usual way.