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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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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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    the same as at the beginning. Second row: knit 3 stitches, seam 12, knit 5 plain, seam 12, knit 5, seam 12. Continue this to the end of the row. Continue these alternate rows till you have knit 12. The row before the twisted one must be the one where the 5 stitches are knit plain and the 12 seamed. For the twisted row: seam 3, take off 6 with a 3d needle, keep that needle in front, and with the needle you began the row with knit the remaining 6 stitches plain, then the 6 stitches you took off; seam 5 stitches. Continue this pattern to the end of the row. The next row : knit 3 plain, seam 12, knit 5 plain. Continue these alternate rows, as at the beginning, till you have 13 rows knitted, then repeat the twist as before, 13 rows more, and then the twist again, then 13 rows more. At this twist the narrowing must begin. Seam 3 stitches, take off 6, knit the 2 first of the remain- ing 6 stitches together, knit the 4 which remain, knit the 2 first of the stitches you took off' together, knit the 4 \$hich remain. Continue this pattern, narrowing 2 stitches in every twisted stripe, to the end of the row; knit 11 alternate rows, then the twist again, taking off 6 and knitting 5, then 11 rows more : at this tsvist you must narrow 2 stitches in each twisted stripe, the same as before, then 11 rows more; at this twist you must narrow 1
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