WeRead Powered by ReaderPub
My Knitting Book (Second Series) cover

My Knitting Book (Second Series)

Chapter 55: Œillet-Pattern Purse.
Open in WeRead

Explore more books like this:

About This Book

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.

Œillet-Pattern Purse.

Fine netting silk.—5 Needles, No. 26.—Cast twenty-four stitches on each of four needles.

First round—knit two together; bring the silk forward,—twice, knit two together.—Repeat.

Second round—knit two; pearl one; knit one.—Repeat.

Third round—bring the silk forward,—twice, knit two together,—twice.—Repeat.

Fourth round—knit one;(a) pearl one; knit two.—Repeat from (a).

When the fourth round is completed, knit one stitch off the next pin to the left, and commence again, as at first round.