My Knitting Book (Second Series)

Chapter 7: A Quilt in Raised Stripes.

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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 Quilt in Raised Stripes.

Cast on any number of stitches that can be divided by three.—Eight-thread fleecy, two colours—say pink and white.—Needles, No. 1, pointed at both ends.

First row—with pink,—bring the wool forward, slip one; knit two together.—Repeat.

Second row—with white,—same as first.

Third row—with pink,—commence from the other end of the needle, pearl two together; slip one; turn the wool round the needle.—Repeat.—Finish with—turn the wool round the needle, pearl one.

Fourth row—with white,—same as third.

Commence again, as at first row.