The dictionary of needlework : an encyclopaedia of artistic, plain, and fancy needlework. Dealing fully with the details of all the stitches employed, the method of working, the materials used, the meaning of technical terms, and, where necessary, tracing the origin and history of the various works described. Illustrated with upwards of 800 wood engravings, and coloured plates. Plain sewing, textiles, dressmaking, appliances, and terms (1885)
Caulfeild, Sophia Frances Ann, 1824-1911 · London : L. Upcott Gill · leaf 113
y picking up orraising a stitcli, thus: Hold the work right side to thefr:>nt, and put the pin into the work so as to pick iip theloop nearest the last one, Knit, pull this up as a loop onthe pin, and pass the working thread round the pin andthrough the picked up loop, to form a stitch, let the… … Fig. 514. Kkitiixg—Join TociinER. pin and put it through the first stitch upon tlie front pin,and the first stitch upon the back, and Knit the twotogether; continue to Knit the stitches tog.-tUer in thismanner until all are absorbed. Knit.—The first and chief stitch in Knitting, andsometimes called…
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