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My Knitting Book (Second Series)

Chapter 59: An Edging.
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.

An Edging.

Cast on eight stitches—Needles, No. 24.—Cotton, No. 20.

First row—knit three; bring the thread forward, knit two together; bring the thread forward,—twice, knit two together; knit one.

Second row—knit three; pearl one; knit two; bring the thread forward, knit two together; knit one.

Third row—knit three; bring the thread forward, knit two together; knit one; bring the thread forward,—twice, knit two together; knit one.

Fourth row—knit three; pearl one; knit three; bring the thread forward, knit two together; knit one.

Fifth row—knit three; bring the thread forward, knit two together; knit two; bring the thread forward,—twice, knit two together; knit one.

Sixth row—knit three; pearl one; knit four; bring the thread forward, knit two together; knit one.

Seventh row—knit three; bring the thread forward, knit two together; knit six.

Eighth row—slip three; knit four; bring the thread forward, knit two together; knit one.

Commence again, as at first row.