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EXPLANATION OF TERMS.
TO CAST ON WITH ONE PIN.
Take the thread, and putting it between the second and third fingers of the left hand, leave an end of about one yard for every 100 stitches; pass it round the left thumb, from left to right; then take the pin in the right hand, placing it under the crossing of the thread; put the needle down the loop, and bring the thread from the outside forward on the point of the pin; take the thread in the right hand, and passing it round the pin as A, turn the loop B on the left thumb over the pin, and draw it tight with the end thread in the left hand, and repeat until the required number of stitches are on the pin.
TO CAST ON WITH TWO PINS.
This is the Spanish method, and is particularly adapted for working fine wools, by its forming a looser stitch. Tie a loop at the end of the thread, and put it on the pin, holding it in the left hand; take the other pin with the right hand, and put it in the loop; pass the thread between the pins, and bring it forward then with the right hand pin; bring the thread through the loop on the left pin; there will now be a loop on each pin as C and D; then pass the loop D on to the left pin; repeat by putting the right hand pin through the loop D, and passing the thread between the pins as before.