Material: Messrs. Walter Evans and Co.'s No. 10 or No. 50 knitting
cotton.
If knitted with thick cotton, this border will be suitable for trimming
a quilt or berceaunette cover; if, on the contrary, fine cotton is used,
the pattern will form a very pretty collar for a little boy or girl.
To make a collar, begin by a chain of 220 stitches, and work 6 rows
backwards and forwards alternately, knitting 4 stitches and purling 2.
In the 2nd, 4th, and 6th rows the 4 stitches are purled, and the 2 are
knitted.
7th row: * Purl 2, make 1, knit 2, purl 2. Repeat from *.
8th row: Alternately purl 5, knit 2. All the rows with _even_ numbers
are knitted like this, except that the number of the knitted stitches
are increased by 2 in each of them. We will not, therefore, henceforth
mention these rows.
9th row: * Knit 2, make 1, knit 1, make 1, knit 2, purl 2. Repeat from
*.
11th row: * Knit 2, make 1, knit 3, make 1, knit 2, purl 2. Repeat from
*.
13th row: * Knit 2, make 1, knit 5, make 1, knit 2, purl 2. Repeat from
*. The pattern is continued in the same manner. The small gores formed
between the ribs are increased by 2 stitches in every second row. Each
of these gores has 13 stitches in the 21st row, which is the last. Cast
off all the stitches after this row.
Take a crochet needle, and with the same cotton as that used for the
knitting work 1 stitch of double crochet in every stitch of the
selvedge, then the 2 following rows for the edging. 1st row: Alternately
1 treble, 1 chain, under which miss 1.
2nd row: Alternately 1 double over 1 treble of preceding row, 1 purl
(that is, 5 chain and 1 slip stitch in the first), under which miss 1.
Over the first row of the knitting work 1 row of close double crochet.
The border is now completed.
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