Our baby; how to dress and feed it by Caller Alma A

Author:Caller, Alma A. [from old catalog] & Hanaford, J. H., b. 1819. [from old catalog]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Layettes, Knitting, Crocheting, Infants
Publisher: Boston, C.A. Marsh, printers
Published: 1886-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

row. There will then be thirty stitches on the needle. Bind off. You will now have the slipper part of the boot completed.

With the white wool knit across the needle that is left in the work, beginning at the heel, knit three, seam three, etc. With the same needle pick up seventeen stitches across the instep, and twenty-seven stitches on the other side.

1. Seam forty-three, seam two together. Do not knit the rest of the stitches.

2. Narrow, narrow, narrow, * thread over, knit one, * five times, thread over, narrow, narrow, narrow three stitches together. Turn, the work.

3. Knit plain sixteen stitches, narrow.

4. Knit plain sixteen stitches, narrow.

5. Seam sixteen, seam two together.

6.10, 14, and 18. Same as second row.

7.11, 15, and 19. Same as third row.

8, 12, 16, and 20. Same as fourth row.

9, 13, and 17. Same as fifth row.

21. Seam thirty-four. In this row and each row following, there will \)e fifty-one stitches.

22. Narrow three times, * thread over, knit one * five times, thread over, narrow, narrow five t^es more, *thread over, knit one * five times, thread over, narrow, narrow five times more, * thread over, knit one ^ five times, thread over, narrow, narrow, narrow.

23 and 24. Knit plain. 25. Seam.

Repeat the twenty-second, twenty-third, twenty-fourth, and tw^enty-fifth rows ten times, then bind off.

The ninth and tenth times that you knit the twenty-second and twenty-third rows use the colored wool.

Join the boot on the wrong side, in such a way as to make the toe square. Run a narrow white ribbon around the lower row of shells in the ankle, and tie in a bow in front.

WORSTED BALL. Use coarse steel needles. In knitting balls always cast on a number of stitches that can be divided by three. A medium-sized ball needs thirty stitches. After casting on thirty stitches, tie the bit that remains, and leave as a sort of '* sign-board." This you may call "A," the opposite end call " B." Knit from A to B, leaving one stitch unknit; turn, knit toward A, leaving one stitch unknit; turn, knit toward B, at the end leave two stitches unknit, turn, knit toward A, leave two stitches; turn knit toward B, and leave three stitches; turn, knit toward A and leave

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