Mee's companion to the work-table, containing selections in knitting, netting, and crochet work / by Cornelia Mee.

  • Cornelia Mee
Date:
MDCCCXLIV [1844]
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Credit: Mee's companion to the work-table, containing selections in knitting, netting, and crochet work / by Cornelia Mee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    41 stitches on each of the side needles. The middle of the heel ends the row, therefore the 1st needle is the one which begins from that place. Knit 15 stitches plain, make a stitch by taking up a loop of the last row, knit 3 stitches, make another as before, continue to knit 3 and make 1 till you have increased 11 stitches, which will bring you within 4 stitches of the end of the needle; knit them plain. Knit the front needle in the 2d row of pattern, knitting 35 and seaming J, knitting 35, seaming 1, knitting 35, which ends the needle. Knit 3 stitches, make 1, knit 3 as before, till you have made 11, knit 15 plain, which ends the row. There should now be 51 stitches on each of the side needles. You must knit to within 2 stitches of the end of the 1st needle ; knit them together. Knit the front needle in 3d row of pattern. Third needle : slip a stitch, knit a stitch, pull the slipped stitch over it, knit to the end of the needle plain. The next row is not to be narrowed at either place. Continue to narrow the side needles, as directed, every 2d row, carrying on the pattern on the front needle, till you have reduced the stitches on each side needle, the 1st to 35, and the 2d to 36 stitches. There will now be 173 stitches all round. Continue to knit the side needles plain, and the front in pattern, till you have repeated the pattern
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