MOTHER’S KNITTER.
BY
E. M. C.
CONTAINING SOME PATTERNS OF THINGS FOR LITTLE CHILDREN.
LONDON:
HATCHARDS, PICCADILLY.
1882.
LONDON
PRINTED BY STRANGEWAYS AND SONS,
Tower Street, Upper St. Martin’s Lane.
CONTENTS.
- PAGE
- GENERAL REMARKS 5
- TERMS USED IN KNITTING 6
- BABY’S BOOT: SMALL SIZE 22
- ” ” MEDIUM SIZE 25
- ” ” FULL SIZE 30
- CHILD’S JACKET OR SPENCER 7
- ” SOCK 19
- DAISY-STITCH SHAWL 33
- FROCK 10
- INDEX OF THINGS IN KNITTING-BOOKS 35
- OPEN-WORK PATTERN 18
- PETTICOAT 16
- SHAWL 34
- TAM O’SHANTER CAP 17
GENERAL REMARKS.
Always cast off loosely, unless directedto the contrary.
The size of wool and pins is important intrying a pattern. Wools necessarily vary,both in quality and price; the best kinds touse for babies’ boots are Merino, Andalusian,2-thread Lady Betty, and Eider yarn. Penelopewool is a trifle thicker, and is sold in2-oz. skeins. Small-sized things can be increasedby using larger pins and coarserwool: for instance, the smallest boot in thisbook can be made to fit a much older babyby using Berlin fingering and bone pins,No. 13.
Terms used in Knitting,
To increase, or make.—With your right-handpin knit through the lower part of the next stitchas well as through the next stitch. Or, if at thebeginning of a row, knit the first stitch, then knitagain through it from the back. Or, put thewool before the needle, but this makes a hole.Or, cast on another stitch, and then knit it.
To decrease.—Knit 2 stitches at the same timeso as to make 1 out of the 2. Or, slip a stitchfrom the left pin to the right without knittingit, knit the next stitch, then with your left pinpull the slipped stitch over the knitted one.
To pearl