Fig. 259. A little girl's first piece of knitting
It may be that you desire to widen the row of stitches. Both widening and decreasing is done at the end of needle or row. Knit as usual till there remains but one loop on the left-hand needle. Insert the left-hand needle through the loop at the base of the last stitch. Bring worsted around the point and make a stitch as usual. The last stitch is knitted in the usual way.
After you have practised the stitches with wool, it is well to buy a ball of coarse knitting cotton and a pair of steel needles. The cotton makes excellent wash cloths. Cast on 50 stitches then knit or purl the same amount of rows as stitches. To make a fancy cloth knit three rows then purl three rows until you have the fifty rows.
The long straight shawls are the most popular at present.
A little one for yourself that would be quite pretty is made in pop corn stitch ([Figure 260]). It requires five skeins of worsted and a pair of wooden needles.
Photograph by Mary G. Huntsman
Her First Knitted Shawl
Cast on 59 stitches on your needle.