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My Knitting Book (Second Series)

Chapter 61: An Insertion.
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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 Insertion.

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

First row—slip one; knit two; bring the thread forward, slip one; knit one, pass the slip-stitch over it; bring the thread forward, slip one; knit one, pass the slip-stitch over it; bring the thread forward, slip one; knit one, pass the slip-stitch over it; knit two.

Second row—plain knitting.

Repeat these two rows, alternately.