The ladies' guide to needle work, embroidery, etc. : being a complete guide to all kinds of ladies' fancy work (1877)
Frost, S. Annie (Sarah Annie) · New York : H.T. Williams · leaf 83
a shape to stretch. An expert knitter can vary the above pattern in many ways, making the shoeinto a boot by continuing the colored wool over the instep, and sewing on verytiny buttons, or knitting a band of colored wool, to fasten at the back and be car-ried across to button round the ankle.… … Fig. 68.—KNITTED COUNTERPANE IN STRIPES, WITH BORDER AND FRINGE. Six pounds of No. 8 three-thread knitting-cotton, and ivory pins, No. 11, arerequired. For the stripes that form the centre, cast on 47 stitches. 1st row.—Knit 1, knit 2, seam 2, knit 2, seam 2, knit 7, seam 1, knit 13, seam1, knit 7,…
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