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Cast on fifty stitches for the hood, and work forty plain rows.

When finished, it may be lined with white silk or satin, and trimmed with narrow satin riband.

A warm square Shawl.

Eight-thread fleecy, two colours, say scarlet and drab.--Needles, No. 1.

Work four other similar rows, making altogether six rows,--with scarlet.

Work four other rows, similar to the two last, with drab; then, commence again, as at first row, with scarlet.

A Shawl in Raised Knitting.

The centre may be worked in violet, or dark claret: the border in eight shades of stone colour, including the extreme shades--black and white.--German wool.--Two needles, No. 16, and one needle, No. 10.

Commence the opposite border, with the white shade of stone colour, increasing on every row, except on the last four; and reversing the shades of colour, so as to form a similar border to the first.

Two side borders, in separate pieces, are now to be worked in the manner first described. These are afterwards to be sewn on;--the decreasing having formed an angle, that admits of the right shades of colour joining correctly.

A Vandyke Edging.

Cast on twelve stitches.--Needles, No. 26.--Cotton, No. 20.

Commence again, as at first row.

Insertion Leaf-Pattern for Tidies

Cast on twenty-one stitches for each pattern.--Needles, No. 18--Cotton, No. 14.

Commence again, as at first row.

Vandyke and Open Pattern for a Tidy, etc.

Cast on twelve stitches for each pattern, and six, for the three edge stitches on either side.--Needles, No. 18.--Cotton, No. 14.

Commence again, as at first row.

Open Stripe Pattern for a Tidy, etc.

Cast on twenty-four stitches for each pattern.--Needles, No. 18.--Cotton, No. 14.

Another Tidy.

Cast on six stitches for each pattern, and four, for two edge stitches on either side.--Needles, No. 18.--Cotton, No. 14.

Repeat these two rows, three times.

Repeat the last two rows, twice; and commence again, as at first row.

Feather Pattern for a Tidy.

Cast on nineteen stitches for each pattern, and four over, for two stitches at each edge.--Needles, No. 22.--Cotton, No. 18.

Commence again, as at second row.

Small Rose-leaf Pattern for a Tidy.

Cast on any number of stitches that can be divided by six, adding four stitches over, to keep the pattern even at the beginning and end.--Needles, No. 18.--Cotton, No. 14.

Commence again, as at first row.

Point de l'Echelle, for a Tidy, etc.

Cast on thirty-six stitches for every two patterns, and one over, for the centre or dividing stitch between each pattern.--Needles, No. 16.--Cotton, No. 12.

Commence again, as at first row.

N.B. In the above pattern, when casting off, every nineteenth stitch is to be dropped.

A Fish or Basket Napkin.

Cast on twenty-four stitches for each pattern, and one over, for the edge stitch.--Needles, No. 16.--Cotton, No. 12.

Commence again, as at first row.

Fern Pattern Fish Napkin.

Cast on twenty-nine stitches for each pattern, and nine over, to make both sides correspond.--Needles, No. 16.--Cotton, No. 12.

N.B. The nine extra stitches, at the end of each row, are to be knitted the same as the nine stitches, at the commencement.

Commence again, as at first row.

Open Pattern for a small Quilt.

Cast on five stitches for each pattern.--German wool, used double.--Needles, No. 7.

Commence again, as at first row.

This quilt is prettiest when lined with coloured silk. It should be trimmed with a vandyke edging, knitted with wool.

Pretty Open Stitch for a Bag.

Middle-sized netting silk.--Needles, No. 23.

Cast on six stitches for each pattern.--Forty-four patterns form an ordinary sized bag.

Commence again, as at first round.

A new Pence Jug or Purse.

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