Beeton's housewife's treasury of domestic information : comprising complete and practical instructions on the house and its furniture, artistic decoration economy, toilet, children, etiquette, domestic and fancy needlework, dressmaking and millinery, and all other household matters : with every requisite direction to secure the comfort, elegance, and prosperity of the home : a companion volume to "Mrs. Beeton's book of household management" : profusely illustrated (1879)
Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary), 1836-1865 · London ; New York : Ward, Lock & Co., Warwick House, Salisbury Square, E.C. · leaf 916
op off the point of the left-hand needle. Continue thus until all the stitches are taken from the left to theright hand needle, and the row is then complete. Seaming or purling a stitch is done by taking up the stitch in front instead of atthe back, throwing the thread over and knitting the stitch… … 83. Increasing. s4- Decreasing. Increasing or making a stitch, is done by throwing the thread once round theneedle and in the next row knitting it as an ordinary stitch (see No. 77). Decreasing is done in two ways : firstly, taking up two stitches and knittingthem together as one ; secondly, by…
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