Materials required : A pair of No. 18 needles, three skeins of cardi-
nal and two of old gold purse silk✪ Silk Purses. Cast on one hundred and fifty-six
stitches with cardinal ; knit eighteen rows plain. Now take good silk,
*put thread over, knit two together, repeat from * throughout the row;
20th row knit plain. Knit nine rows in this manner, then repeat the
cardinal stripe. Alternate cardinal and gold stripes until the purse,
when doubled, shall measure four and a half inches through the middle.
Ordinary loose knitting about ten stripes. Draw the ends up tightly,
sew the sides together, leaving a slit in the center in which to put the
money, and finish with steel bead tassel at each end, and gilt rings.
RUGS AND MATS.
Take two yards of Brussels carpet, colors to suit the taste of the
maker ; cut in strips three inches wide and ravel ; knit with carpet
warp garter-stitch, three strips thirty inches wide and two-thirds of a
yard long; put in a thread of raveled Brussels at every other stitch,
every other row ; when the three strips are done, sew together and line
the whole with buckram or some kind of stiff canvas.
A very durable and handsome rug can be made by simply knitting
22i KNITTING, CROCHET AND LACE.
carpet rags, garter-stitch, in strips of a color and width to suit the fancy,
and sewing them together. Sewing a strip across the ends, of the same
color and width as the outside strips, will give the effect of a border.
Two sticks a foot long and a little larger than a slate pencil will answer
for needles.
This will also make a desirable door mat : Take scraps of woolen,
two and one-half inches long and seven-eighths of an inch wide. A
ball of the coarsest knitting-cotton. Large steel needles. Cast on
thirty-seven stitches✪ Door Mat ; knit garter-stitch ; knit one piece in every stitch ;
knit backward plain. Knit three strips one yard and a quarter long
each ; sew the three strips together, and the door mat is finished.
GENTLEMEN'S SCARFS.
Knit a chain of eighty-four stitches, then knit six stitches, the seventh
widen by knitting twice in one stitch ; knit six again, then narrow by
knitting two stitches together, so on across the eighty-four stitches ;
back the same way, always taking the outside half of the stitch ; finish
with fringe.
INFANTS' SACQUES.
This little sacque is done in common shell stitch ; it is easily made,
pretty, and fits nicely. First make a chain stitch the length required
for the article to be made ; then in every third stitch make four treble
crochet stitches. (For a treble stitch turn the wool around the needle,
put it in a stitch, bring the wool through and draw it through two loops
twice.) In every succeeding row make the. shells into the center of the
shells in the preceding row.
Material for a Sacque : Two ounces of white split zephyr, half an
ounce of blue or pink and a medium-sized bone hook✪ Infants' Sacques. Make a foun-
dation chain, and on this twenty-four shells for the first row around the
neck. Turn, make a chain of two stitches — always do this at each end,
so as not to draw the edges — and on the second row widen by making
a shell between the sixth and seventh shell from each end ; this is to
shape the shoulder. Always widen both shoulders alike.
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Materials required : A pair of No. 18 needles, three skeins of cardinal and two of old gold purse silk. Cast on one hundred and fifty-six stitches with cardinal ; knit eighteen rows plain. Now take good silk, *put thread over, knit two together, repeat from * throughout the row; 20th row knit plain. Knit nine rows in this manner, then repeat the cardinal stripe. Alternate cardinal and gold stripes until the purse, when doubled, shall measure four and a half inches through the middle. Ordinary loose knitting about ten stripes. Draw the ends up tightly, sew the sides together, leaving a slit in the center in which to put the money, and finish with steel bead tassel at each end, and gilt rings.
RUGS AND MATS.
Take two yards of Brussels carpet, colors to suit the taste of the maker ; cut in strips three inches wide and ravel ; knit with carpet warp garter-stitch, three strips thirty inches wide and two-thirds of a yard long; put in a thread of raveled Brussels at every other stitch, every other row ; when the three strips are done, sew together and line the whole with buckram or some kind of stiff canvas.
A very durable and handsome rug can be made by simply knitting
carpet rags, garter-stitch, in strips of a color and width to suit the fancy, and sewing them together. Sewing a strip across the ends, of the same color and width as the outside strips, will give the effect of a border. Two sticks a foot long and a little larger than a slate pencil will answer for needles.
This will also make a desirable door mat : Take scraps of woolen, two and one-half inches long and seven-eighths of an inch wide. A ball of the coarsest knitting-cotton. Large steel needles. Cast on thirty-seven stitches ; knit garter-stitch ; knit one piece in every stitch ; knit backward plain. Knit three strips one yard and a quarter long each ; sew the three strips together, and the door mat is finished.
GENTLEMEN'S SCARFS.
Knit a chain of eighty-four stitches, then knit six stitches, the seventh widen by knitting twice in one stitch ; knit six again, then narrow by knitting two stitches together, so on across the eighty-four stitches ; back the same way, always taking the outside half of the stitch ; finish with fringe.
INFANTS' SACQUES.
This little sacque is done in common shell stitch ; it is easily made, pretty, and fits nicely. First make a chain stitch the length required for the article to be made ; then in every third stitch make four treble crochet stitches. (For a treble stitch turn the wool around the needle, put it in a stitch, bring the wool through and draw it through two loops twice.) In every succeeding row make the. shells into the center of the shells in the preceding row.
Material for a Sacque : Two ounces of white split zephyr, half an ounce of blue or pink and a medium-sized bone hook. Make a foundation chain, and on this twenty-four shells for the first row around the neck. Turn, make a chain of two stitches — always do this at each end, so as not to draw the edges — and on the second row widen by making a shell between the sixth and seventh shell from each end ; this is to shape the shoulder. Always widen both shoulders alike.
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