Cast on one hundred stitches on No. 10 pins, with No. 4 cotton, and knit
one plain row (pattern). _First row_--purled. _Second row_--cotton
forward, and take two together. _Third row_--purled. _Fourth
row_--plain, with No. 2 pins, cotton twice over the pins; repeat these
four rows until the square is complete; sew every six threads of the
large row tightly together in the centre, with scarlet German wool,
fastening off each six securely and separately; then knit any fringe you
may fancy, and join it on.
HARLEQUIN QUILTS,
WITH TUFTS.
Plain double knitting, with six-thread fleecy, in pieces of six inches
square, each of the pieces being about twenty-four stitches each way;
when finished, they are to be sewn together with a tuft of black wool at
the corner of each square. The tufts may be made in the following
manner:--take a groved wooden mesh, an inch in width, wind round it
four-thread black fleecy about twelve times; slip a coarse thread in the
grove, and tie the wool quite tight, leaving an end to it that may be
drawn through and attached to the quilt; cut the loops of wool through
on the opposite side of the mesh, then comb and shear it neatly, for a
quilt two yards and a half square, two hundred and twenty-five pieces
will be required: it will take two hundred and fifty-six tufts.