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Rake knitting and its special adaptation to invalid workers (1916)

Tracy, Susan Edith, 1864- · Boston, Whitcomb & Barrows · leaf 12

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wool and tie a knot, leaving aloop a little longer than will just slip over a peg. Ifwool is used, this will be large enough; if hard twineor rope is chosen, the loop should be somewhat largerthan seems necessary, as the thread in this case is in-elastic. Slip this loop over the first upper peg,… … Continue in this way the length of the rake. Whenat the end, after winding the last peg, bring the threadaround the same peg again, and reverse the windingon the second peg, continuing to the top. There arenow two rows of loops on the pegs, and the next stepis the actual knitting. The stitches are…

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