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The ladies' complete guide to crochet, fancy knitting, and needlework

Chapter 10: KNITTED EMBROIDERY.
By Ann S. Stephens
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The manual opens with a brief history of needle arts and proceeds to clear, elementary instruction and a dictionary of technical terms, enabling readers to learn stitches and techniques quickly. It provides step-by-step guidance and patterns across crochet, fancy knitting, tatting, embroidery, Berlin wool and point lace, with designs ranging from simple edgings and collars to intricate doilies, nets, bags, scarves, infant caps, and anti-macassars. Illustrative patterns and explanations cover materials, stitches, insertions, and border treatments, aiming to teach both basic execution and more elaborate decorative motifs for domestic handiwork.

BORDER FOR AN EMBROIDERED QUILT.
[Fig. 4.]

KNITTED EMBROIDERY.

Materials.—Knitting cotton, white and ingrain pinks, No. 12; knitting needles, No. 15; eagle card-board gauge.

Knitted Embroidery, of which the engraving shows a very simple specimen, is a very novel and beautiful style of work. In wool, its effect rivals that of the costly chenille, with the advantage of being washable; and now that cottons are dyed of such exquisite colors, they are also very suitable for it.

With the white cotton cast on 16 stitches, and purl a row.

1st.—W.: k. 2, m. 1, k. 2 t., k. 3, ✕ k. 1 P., 1 W., 1 P., ✕ W. k. 4, m. 2, k. 2.

2nd.—W.: k. 3, p. 1, k. 1, p. 3, ✕ p. 1 P., 1 W., 1 P., ✕ white p. 3, k. 4.

3rd.—W.: k. 2, m. 1, k. 2 t., k. 5, ✕ k. 3 P, ✕ k. 8 W.

4th.—W.: k. 2, m. 2, k. 2 t., k. 1, p. 4, ✕ p. 1 P., ✕ W., p. 4, k. 4.

5th.—All white: k. 2, m. 1, k. 2 t., k. 12, p. 1, k. 2.

6th.—W.: k. 6, ✕ p. 1 P., 1 W., 1 P., 3 W., 1 P., 1 W., 1 P., ✕ k. 4 W.

7th.—W.: k. 2, m. 1, k. 2 t., ✕ k. 1 P., 1 W., 1 P., 3 W., 1 P., 1 W., 1 P., ✕ W., k. 2 t., m. 2, k. 2 t., k. 2 t.

8th.—W.: k. 3, p. 1, k. 1, ✕ p. 3 P., 3 W., 3 P., ✕ W., k. 4.

9th.—W.: k. 2, m. 1, k. 2 t., k. 1, ✕ k. 1 P., 5 W., 1 P., ✕ W., k. 5.

10th.—All White: cast off 2, k. 2, p. 9, k. 4. Repeat the pattern to the length required.

+ + Between these marks only the colors intermix.