Knitted Border
Material: Messrs. Walter Evans and Co.'s No. 10 or No. 50 knitting cotton.
If knitted with thick cotton, this border will be suitable for trimming a quilt or berceaunette cover; if, on the contrary, fine cotton is used, the pattern will form a very pretty collar for a little boy or girl.
To make a collar, begin by a chain of 220 stitches, and work 6 rows backwards and forwards alternately, knitting 4 stitches and purling 2.
In the 2nd, 4th, and 6th rows the 4 stitches are purled, and the 2 are knitted.
7th row: * Purl 2, make 1, knit 2, purl 2. Repeat from *.
8th row: Alternately purl 5, knit 2. All the rows with even numbers are knitted like this, except that the number of the knitted stitches are increased by 2 in each of them. We will not, therefore, henceforth mention these rows.
9th row: * Knit 2, make 1, knit 1, make 1, knit 2, purl 2. Repeat from *.
11th row: * Knit 2, make 1, knit 3, make 1, knit 2, purl 2. Repeat from *.
13th row: * Knit 2, make 1, knit 5, make 1, knit 2, purl 2. Repeat from *. The pattern is continued in the same manner. The small gores formed between the ribs are increased by 2 stitches in every second row.
Each of these gores has 13 stitches in the 21st row, which is the last. Cast off all the stitches after this row.
Take a crochet needle, and with the same cotton as that used for the knitting work 1 stitch of double crochet in every stitch of the selvedge, then the 2 following rows for the edging.
1st row: Alternately 1 treble, 1 chain, under which miss 1.
2nd row: Alternately 1 double over 1 treble of preceding row, 1 purl (that is, 5 chain and 1 slip stitch in the first), under which miss 1. Over the first row of the knitting work 1 row of close double crochet. The border is now completed.
Knee-cap in Knitting.
Materials: For 1 pair, 4 oz. pink 4-thread fleecy wool, and a small quantity of white ditto.
Begin each knee-cap by casting on with pink wool 114 stitches, equally divided upon 4 needles, and joining them into a circle.
Upon this number of stitches work 47 rounds, alternately knitting and purling 2 stitches. In the 48th round begin the gore which covers the knee; it is worked separately backward and forwards, always alternately knitting and purling 2 stitches.
After 2 rows change the pattern, so as to form small squares Knit the first row of this gore upon 26 stitches slipped off from the last row on to a separate needle.
At the end of each following row knit the nearest stitch of the nearest needle, so as to increase 1 stitch in each row of the gore.
Continue in this way until only 42 stitches remain of the ribbed part. After this work the remainder of the gore separately, decreasing once at the beginning and end of each row till only 26 stitches remain; then take up 23 stitches of the selvedge on each side of these 26 stitches, and work 47 rounds, alternately knitting and purling 2 stitches.
The edging at the top and bottom of the knee-cap is worked in crochet.
With white wool make a chain of 50 stitches; turn and work 1 row of crochet à tricoter; then work a second row thus: the first part, as usual, with white, but coming back, with pink make 4 chain between each stitch, work in the same way on the other side of the foundation chain, thus forming a small ruche, and sew it on to the edge of the knitting.
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