Rake Knitting Patterns

by Bertha Thompson

3. How to Cast Off Stitches in Shaping Garments.

Lift the stitch from one nail onto the next in the other row.

Lift the stitch already on this nail over the new one, and off the nail.

4. How to Add Stitches in Shaping Garments.

Wind one or more of the empty nails according to directions, when the end of the row of stitches is reached. Wind back across the rake and knit these new stitches in the same way as the others.

5. How to Cast Off Knitting from the Rake.

There are two ways to do this.

1. Leave a length of yarn, when cutting off the ball, long enough to knit once across the rake.

Beginning at the opposite end of the rake, with a large knitting needle lift a stitch first from one row of nails and then from the other until all the stitches are on the needle.

Then cast off as in ordinary knitting. (See directions in any book on knitting.)