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15 stitches 24 stitches 2nd row 3rd row 40 stitches 4th row added alternately back row beads begin blue border bring the cotton bring the silk bring the thread brown Cast coarse color cotton forward crease decrease divide double knitting edge finish Four needles fringe half heel inch increase a stitch join knit 2 taken knit a plain knit a row knit a stitch knit round knit the rest lambs'-wool last stitch leave length loop stitch middle mitten muffatee narrow netting number of stitches once round pass the cotton pattern plain knitting plain round plain row plain stitches pretty purl purse repeat rib a row rib a stitch ridges round the needle row plain seam side silk forward slip a stitch square stitches plain stripe thread forward thumb tuft turn twice round wide wool forward
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Page 39 - Knit another round plain, excepting over the centre stitches, where you are to knit a bead, bringing it through the stitch. Knit a plain round, keeping the beads on the outside of the purse.
Page 39 - ... in the last pattern, which makes that the centre stitch for the bead. It is easy to count the number of rounds you have done, at the place where you decreased.
Page 38 - CAST 36 stitches on each of 3 needles, knit a plain round; knit 4 stitches, bring the silk forward, knit a stitch — this is the centre stitch of the pattern — bring the silk forward, knit...
Page 1 - To make the cape to the hood, put 25 stitches on the needle, then take up the stitches at each end of the hood before you VOL.
Page 7 - ... decrease as you increased; take up the stitches at the top of the sock and knit 12 ridges, and cast off.
Page 36 - WITH 2 steel needles and coarse netting silk cast on 60 stitches, knit the first, bring the silk forward, slip a stitch, knit the next, and pull the slipped stitch over the knitted one, bring the silk forward and begin again.
Page 43 - CAST on 60 stitches ; bring the silk forward every stitch, and take the stitch on the needle as for plain knitting...
Page 70 - ... bring that you have done with forward, and pass the other back. When...
Page 129 - Bring the thread forward, means to pass it between the needles towards you.
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Ladies' Knitting and Netting Book: Second Series Camden third series First series Second series Third series |
| Author | Miss Watts |
| Contributor | John Miland |
| Edition | 5 |
| Publisher | John Miland, 35, Chapel Street, Belgrave Square., 1840 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | Oct 3, 2006 |
| Length | 129 pages |
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