This requires a whole box of the red and white Saxony yarn.
This should be knit with the finest ivory needles. Cast on forty
stitches. Knit the stripes garter stitch; that is, knit backwards
and forwards plain knitting, slipping always the first stitch on the
needle. Knitting it thus, it makes every other time across look like
purling. The stripes must be four hundred purls in length; it needs
eleven stripes, red and white alternately. These stripes must be sewed
together, and the ends finished off with a fringe, or knit a border.
The directions given for the border to the first baby’s blanket, knit
it broader by knitting six or seven stitches plain before you widen or
narrow to make holes.
A “couvre-pied” can be knit in the same manner, only knit the stripes
three hundred and ten purls in length.