Knitting for Beginner
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Mending Knitting
Knitting for beginner: Mending knitting.—Knitted articles
are repaired by reconstructing the web with a needle and thread. When the stitches
are not actually broken, they can be strengthened by new ones made over them,
by means of a needle and thread.
Strengthening the stitches (figs. 366 and 367).—This
can be done in two ways. In fig. 366, the thread is brought out between two
horizontal bars, passed upwards over a perpendicular bar, put in by the side
of the same and brought out between the next horizontal bars.
Work the second row of stitches backwards; take up two threads on the left,
pass downwards to the right, over one thread, take up the thread you passed
over, and so on.

The other way, fig. 367, is, when you have brought out your needle, to carry
it over one thread to the right and upwards over two, take up the next two threads
on the left, pass downwards over two horizontal threads, and over one thread
to the right, and put in the needle where it first came out; then working from
right to left, take up two threads, pass over one to the right, and downwards
over two horizontal ones, and so on.
In the next row, hold your work, the finished part uppermost, carry the needle
downwards over one horizontal thread, bring it out between two threads that
lie separately and take it downwards again over two horizontal threads, pick
up two threads, working from right to left, pass upwards over two threads and
over one to the right, take up two to the left, and so on.
Knitting for beginner: Repairing plain knitting (fig. 368).—When
a broken piece of stocking web requires to be replaced by new, draw the new
and the old pieces together with a needle and thread, using the same thread
the stocking is made of.

For this purpose, you must clear the loops, by ravelling them out top and bottom,
and slip them on to knitting needles. The loops that are to be connected must
lie exactly opposite to each other.
Enter your threaded needle upwards from below through the first disengaged
upper loop, and slip it off the knitting needle, then enter the needle, downwards
from above through the first lower loop, and upwards from below through the
next, and draw out just enough thread to make the new loop the same size as
the old ones.
Then enter the needle, downwards from above, through the same upper loop you
took up before, taking up also the one next to it, and passing your needle through
it from underneath; draw out the thread to form the new loop and descend again
to the next, and so on.
Knitting for beginner: Repairing purled knitting (fig. 369).—To
repair ribbed surfaces consisting of alternate rows of plain and purl, proceed
as follows: hold the article so that the row of purled stitches is exactly opposite
the upper part. Enter your needle upwards from below, through the first loop
of the upper part; join the two lower loops together as in fig. 368; carry the
needle upwards again, and enter it upwards from below through the first loop
of the upper part and downwards from above, through the loop next it. Join the
lower loops again, as in plain knitting.

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