Archer, Effie Archer · Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, Page & company · leaf 389
s. Thread, silk or worsted can be used for the work.The latter is best for practising the first stitchesor pieces. The first term we learn in knitting is to caston stitches (Figure ^56), Select a pair of medium-sized wooden needles. Your worsted should bewound into a ball. Casting on is the… … Fig. 256. Casting-on 352 NEEDLECRAFT under the left needle. Holding the needles in thisposition, throw the worsted around the point of the right-hand needleand draw the right-hand needle throughthe first loop. Thereis now a loop on eachneedle. Slip the lastloop made over theleft needle. *…
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