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My Knitting Book (Second Series)

Chapter 63: A deep and handsome Border.
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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.

A deep and handsome Border.

Cast on thirty-eight stitches.—Needles, No. 22.—Cotton, No. 18.

First row—knit two; knit two together; bring the thread forward,(a) knit two; bring the thread forward, knit one; pearl two; knit two together; pearl two; knit two together; pearl two; knit one; bring the thread forward,—twice.—Repeat from (a).—Finish with—knit four; bring the thread forward,—twice, knit two.

Second row—knit three; knit one, taken at the back; pearl four together;(b) knit one; knit one, taken at the back; pearl one; knit two; pearl two together,—twice; knit two; pearl one; knit two; pearl one.—Repeat from (b).—Finish with—knit four.

Third row—knit four;(c) bring the thread forward,—twice, knit one; pearl two; knit one; pearl two; knit two together; pearl two; knit one; bring the thread forward,—twice, knit two.—Repeat from (c).—Finish with—bring the thread forward,—twice, knit one; bring the thread forward, knit four.

Fourth row—cast off two; knit one; pearl three; knit one, taken at the back;(d) pearl one; knit two; knit one, taken at the back; pearl one; knit two; pearl two together,—twice; knit two; pearl one; knit one; knit one, taken at the back.—Repeat from (d).—Finish with—knit four.

Commence again, as at first row.