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My Knitting Book (Second Series)

Chapter 57: Star-Pattern for Shetland Knitting.
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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.

Star-Pattern for Shetland Knitting.

Lady Betty wool.—Needles, No. 8.—Cast on six stitches for each pattern, and one over for the edge.

N.B. The last stitches of each row are to be knitted the same as the first.

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

Second row—knit two together; knit one;(a) bring the wool forward, knit one; bring the wool forward, knit three together; bring the wool forward, knit two together.—Repeat from (a).—Finish with—knit two together; knit one.

Third row—knit one; knit two together; bring the wool forward, knit one; bring the wool forward, knit two together.—Repeat.

Fourth row—knit two together;(b) bring the wool forward, knit three; bring the wool forward, knit three together.—Repeat from (b).

Fifth row—knit one; bring the wool forward, knit two together; knit one; knit two together; bring the wool forward.—Repeat.

Sixth row—knit one; bring the wool forward, knit two together; bring the wool forward, knit three together; bring the wool forward.—Repeat.

Seventh row—knit one; bring the wool forward, knit two together; knit one; knit two together; bring the wool forward.—Repeat.

Eighth row—knit two; bring the wool forward, knit three together; bring the wool forward, knit one.—Repeat.

Commence again, as at first row.