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My Knitting Book (Second Series)

Chapter 56: Another Strong Purse.
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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.

Another Strong Purse.

Second-sized netting silk.—4 Needles, No. 24.—Cast on eighty stitches.

First round—slip one; knit one, pass the slip-stitch over it; bring the silk forward, knit two.—Repeat.

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

For the mouth of the purse,—

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

Second row—pearl two; turn the silk round the needle, pearl two together.—Repeat.