The Ladies' Knitting and Netting Book

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: needles, putting the wool once round the needle. When you have finished this, take finer needles and pick up all the stitches or loops along one side, then continue knitting in double knitting on the finer needles with finer lambs'-wool, putting the wool twice round the needle, and knitting 4 plain stitches at the beginning and end of each row to make a border at the edge. When the cape is deep enough, which should be about three quarters of a yard, including the border, take still smaller needles and knit 1 plain row once round the needle, then 1 row twice round, and a 3rd row once (this is to make a wide row to run the ribbon in); then knit 1 row taking 3 stitches in 1, and continue knitting plain knitting until the collar is deep enough. Make the corners round or not, as you like. Cape with a Border. Cast on 30 stitches; knit 6 plain rows. Begin the next row with the lambs'-wool before theneedle, take off a stitch, and knit a stitch plain, (the lambs'-wool being passed over the stitch that was taken off, forms another stitch which, in the next row, must be knitted with the slipped stitch) pass the lambs'-wool forward again, take off a stitch, and knit one, continue the same to the end of the row. The next row is very nearly the same as this, only, instead of knitting a plain stitch, knit the slipped and the loop stitch together. Two very coarse needles and double yarn are required for this border, and one quarter of a pound of lambs'-wool: it must measure 2 yards in length: finish with 6 plain rows to match the beginning, and cast off. Take finer needles and pick up all the stitches or loops along one edge of the strip, then begin knitting in double knitting on the finer needles with finer lambs'- wool, putting the wool twice round the needle, and knitting 6 stitches pla...