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My Knitting Book (Second Series)

Chapter 60: Another Edging.
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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 Edging.

Cast on seven 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.

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

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

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

Commence again, as at first row.