The Ladies' Knitting and Netting Book

To make up a small muff you must buy 5-8ths of gros-de-naples, 1½ oz. of fine carded wool and 1 oz. of fine horse-hair. Double the silk in halves and place on it 1 layer of wool. 1 layer of horse-hair and a second layer of wool. Quilt these to one-half of the silk and fold the other half over, and sew it to the knitted cover; turn the muff inside out and sew up first the knitted part and then the silk. Finish the muff at the edges by a cord or a quilling of ribbon.

Another Muff

Two needles No. 10 and 3 skeins of coarse fleecy

Cast on sixty stitches. Knit 1 row; rib 1 row; knit 1 row taking 2 stitches together all the way. 4th row; knit 1 stitch, pick up and knit a loop between the stitches, continue the same to the end of the row. As by this you would lose 1 stitch, this must be prevented by picking up and knitting a loop alternately, before beginning or at the end of every 4th row.

Make up the muff like the preceding pattern.

TERMS USED IN KNITTING

A turn means two rows.

To turn means to change from plain to purled stitches, or the reverse.

A ridge is formed by two rows when knitting with only two pins.

A loop stitch is formed by passing the thread before the needle, and, in knitting the next stitch, letting it take its usual place.

To increase in knitting a Quilt, care should always be taken to increase by knitting twice through the last stitch, which is done by knitting a stitch, and then, without taking out the needle, knitting a second at the back.

To fasten on in knitting. It is a secure fastening to lay the two ends contrary-wise to each other, and knit a few stitches with them both.

To narrow or decrease is to make small, to lessen, as in shaping a stocking.

Ribbed stitch, purl stitch, turned, or seam stitch, are all terms having the same meaning. A turned stitch is made by bringing the cotton before the needle, and instead of putting the needle over the upper cotton, it is put under.

To slip, take off, or pass a stitch, is to change it from one needle to another without knitting it.

To take under, means to pass the right hand needle through the stitch on the left hand one, so as still to keep the same side of the stitch towards you.

Welts are the rounds of ribbed stitches done at the top of stockings, to prevent their rolling up.

Cast off means to end your work in the following manner: knit 2 stitches, pass the first over the second, and continue the same until you have but one left, which is finished by passing your cotton through it.

To decrease is to lessen the number of stitches by knitting 2 taken together.

To increase, or make a double stitch, is to knit one stitch in the usual way, then, without slipping out the left hand needle, to pass the thread forward and knit a second stitch, putting the needle under the stitch. The thread must be put back when the stitch is finished.

Hang on, means cast on.

Bring the thread forward, means to pass it between the needles towards you.

Cast over is a term I believe sometimes used by knitters, to signify, bring the cotton forward. I have only used it to express, bring the cotton over the needle, quite round.

Round the needle, means the same as the last term.

Reversed, means quite round the needle, the cotton being passed over the needle, and then carried back to its place.

Together, means knit 2 stitches in 1.

Set, or Tuft, the bunches of cotton used in making some of the Fringes.

To widen means to increase.

The netting meshes are numbered from the knitting needle gauge, as I am not aware there is any other rule for them.

1

If you wish to make a seam on the outside of the glove, or a pattern down the back, it may be done by purling one or more stitches.

2

These stitches may be decreased again or not.

3

Double knitting. Begin with the wool forward, slip a stitch, pass the wool back, knit a stitch, continue to repeat these 2 stitches. Double knitting cannot be done round.

4

In rows like this always keep the cotton before in slipping a stitch.

5

See Contents—Double Knitting. For a blanket it is better to put the wool twice round the needle in the knitted stitches.