Knitting Instruction
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Knot Stitch
Knitting Instruction: Knot stitch (fig. 354).—This forms
a raised spot in plain knitting and is executed as follows: knit 1, and leave
it on the left-hand needle; put the stitch you have made with the right needle
back on the left, and knit it off. Make 4 or 5 similar stitches, all issuing
from the same stitch on the left needle, so that you have 4 or 5 loops on the
right needle; then drop the stitch off the left needle, and pull the 4 first
loops over the last one.

Knitting Instruction: Cable or chain stitch.—Chain stitches
are used for strengthening and equalizing the edges of articles that are made
in stripes. They can be made in two ways; either, you knit off all the stitches
on one needle, turn the work, put the needle into the first stitch, as if you
were going to knit it from the back, and take it off the left needle without
knitting it, the thread to lie behind the needle; or, you knit off all the stitches
on one needle, turn the work, and knit off the first stitch.
Knitting Instruction: The names of the stitches.—Out
of the stitches that have been already described, other stitches are formed,
which, as they are frequently alluded to in knitting directions, we shall here
enumerate, explaining all the terms, usually employed in such directions.
Knitting Instruction: Over, or increase.—Explained
in fig. 353. Throwing the thread once over the right needle.
Double over, or two increases.—Throwing the thread
twice over the needle.
Plain intake.—Knitting two stitches together plain.
This is done when the intake is to lie from left to right.
Knitting Instruction: Purled intake.—Purling two stitches
together. This is done to make the stitches, that are knitted together, visible;
or in the case of a piece of work composed of stripes, on the wrong side, when
the intake is to lean to the right, on the right side.
Plain decrease, taken from behind.—Knitting off two
stitches together, plain from behind. This is done when the intake is to lie
to the left.
Purled decrease, taken from behind.—Purling two stitches
together, from behind. This is done when, in articles composed of stripes, the
decrease has to be made on the wrong side, and is to lie to the left on the
right side.
Pulling over.—Slipping a stitch from the left needle
to the right without knitting it, knitting the next plain, and pulling the slipped
stitch over the knitted one. In this manner two or three stitches can be pulled
over the knitted one.
Casting off.—To prevent the stitches from unravelling
they are finished off in the following manner. Knit off two plain, pull the
first over the second and drop it, so that only one remains on the needle. Knit
the next stitch, and pull the one behind over it, and so on. This chain of stitches,
must neither be too tight, nor too loose, but just as elastic as the rest of
the work.
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