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My Knitting Book (Second Series)

Chapter 64: Another pretty Shetland Pattern.
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.

Another pretty Shetland Pattern.

Lady Betty, or Shetland Wool.—Needles, No. 8.—Cast on ten stitches for each pattern; and one over, for the edge.

N.B. Every other row is—plain knitting.

First row—knit three; knit two together; bring the wool forward, knit one; bring the wool forward, knit two together; knit two.—Repeat.

Third row—knit two; knit two together; bring the wool forward, knit three; bring the wool forward, knit two together; knit one.—Repeat.

Fifth row—knit one; knit two together; bring the wool forward, knit five; bring the wool forward, knit two together.—Repeat.

Seventh row—knit three; bring the wool forward, knit two together; knit one; knit two together; bring the wool forward, knit two.—Repeat.

Ninth row—knit four; bring the wool forward, knit three together; bring the wool forward, knit three.—Repeat.

Eleventh row—plain knitting.

Thirteenth row—knit one; bring the wool forward, knit two together; knit five; knit two together; bring the wool forward.—Repeat.—Finish with—bring the wool forward, knit one.

Fifteenth row—knit two; bring the wool forward, knit two together; knit three; knit two together; bring the wool forward, knit one.—Repeat.—Finish with—bring the wool forward, knit two.

Seventeenth row—knit three; bring the wool forward, knit two together; knit one; knit two together; bring the wool forward; knit two.—Repeat.—Finish with—bring the wool forward, knit three.

Nineteenth row—knit one; knit two together; bring the wool forward, knit five; bring the wool forward, knit two together.—Repeat.

Twenty-first row—knit two together;(a) bring the wool forward, knit seven; bring the wool forward, knit three together.—Repeat from (a).

Twenty-third row—plain knitting.

Commence again, as at first row.

FINIS.