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My Knitting Book (Second Series)

Chapter 58: Leaf-Pattern for Shetland Knitting.
By Miss Lambert
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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.

Leaf-Pattern for Shetland Knitting.

Lady Betty wool.—Needles, No. 8.—Cast on fifteen stitches for each pattern.

First row—slip one; knit one, pass the slip-stitch over it; knit three; bring the wool forward, knit two together; bring the wool forward, knit one; bring the wool forward, knit two together; bring the wool forward, knit three; knit two together.—Repeat.

Second row—pearl knitting.

Repeat these two rows—twice.

Seventh row—slip one; knit one, pass the slip-stitch over it; knit two; bring the wool forward, knit two together; bring the wool forward, knit three; bring the wool forward, knit two together; bring the wool forward, knit two; knit two together.—Repeat.

Eighth row—pearl knitting.

Ninth row—slip one; knit one, pass the slip-stitch over it; knit one; bring the wool forward, knit two together; bring the wool forward, knit five; bring the wool forward, knit two together; bring the wool forward, knit one; knit two together.—Repeat.

Tenth row—pearl knitting.

Eleventh row—slip one; knit one, pass the slip-stitch over it; bring the wool forward, knit two together; bring the wool forward, knit seven; bring the wool forward, knit two together; bring the wool forward, knit two together.—Repeat.

Twelfth row—pearl knitting.

Thirteenth row—knit one;(a) bring the wool forward, knit two together; bring the wool forward, knit three; knit two together; knit four; bring the wool forward, knit two together; bring the wool forward, knit two together.—Repeat from (a).

Fourteenth row—pearl knitting.

Fifteenth row—knit one; bring the wool forward, knit two together; bring the wool forward, knit three; knit two together; slip one; knit one; pass the slip-stitch over it; knit three; bring the wool forward, knit two together; bring the wool forward.—Repeat.

Sixteenth row—pearl knitting.

Repeat the last two rows—twice.

Twenty-first row—knit two; bring the wool forward, knit two together; bring the wool forward, knit two; knit two together; slip one; knit one, pass the slip-stitch over it; knit two; bring the wool forward, knit two together; bring the wool forward, knit one.—Repeat.

Twenty-second row—pearl knitting.

Twenty-third row—knit three; bring the wool forward, knit two together; bring the wool forward, knit one; knit two together; slip one; knit one, pass the slip-stitch over it; knit one; bring the wool forward, knit two together; bring the wool forward, knit two.—Repeat.

Twenty-fourth row—pearl knitting.

Twenty-fifth row—knit four; bring the wool forward, knit two together; bring the wool forward, knit two together; slip one; knit one, pass the slip-stitch over it; bring the wool forward, knit two together; bring the wool forward, knit three.—Repeat.

Twenty-sixth row—pearl knitting.

Twenty-seventh row—knit two together; knit three; bring the wool forward, knit two together,—three times; bring the wool forward, knit four.—Repeat.

Twenty-eighth row—pearl knitting.

Commence again, as at first row.