A very pretty carriage or bed-room mat may be made in knitting. Collect
as much flannel list, or flannel and woollen cloth as you can; cut it
into short lengths, and knit a few rows, for a foundation, in twine.
Then take a piece of list, put it across the string, and knit it in
tightly; knit the pieces of list in this way all across; then knit a
row plain; then knit in a row with the list. If you knit an edge of
scarlet flannel, say six rows first, and six stitches at the beginning
and end of each row, of pieces of the scarlet, and six rows of scarlet
at the ending, your mat will be improved, particularly if the centre is
knit entirely of gray list, as the gray and scarlet are very effective.
When completed, line it with a nice coarse brown cloth. Pretty mats
can be knit entirely of old pieces of cloth of any kind, by cutting it
in narrow strips and sewing each strip together; knit it with large
needles either in strips or squares, and sew them firmly together;
take your pieces at odd times and strip them up, and as you sew them
together, roll them into balls ready for knitting, then arrange your
colors to harmonize together.