After casting on the stitches, hold the pin with the stitches on it in the left hand, and with the thread turned round the little finger of the right hand pass it under the second and third fingers, and over the forefinger; take the other pin in the right hand; put this pin into the first loop on the left pin, and with the forefinger of the right hand pass the thread between the pins, bring the thread through, which forms one stitch; then take the loop off the left pin and repeat.
TO MAKE A STITCH
Bring the thread forward between the pins; when this stitch is worked in the next row it will form an open stitch.
TO MAKE TWO, THREE, OR MORE STITCHES.
Turn the thread as many times round the pin as E, F, G, and in the next row; pearl a stitch and knit a stitch, alternately, taking off one turn of the thread each time, for as many stitches as were made in the row before.
TO SLIP A STITCH.
To pass a stitch from the left pin to the right without working it. In all knitting the first stitch of every row should be slipped to make a firm and even selvedge; this is not mentioned in the receipts, as it would much lengthen the description, but is to be observed as a fixed rule; for example, when a row commences thus; knit 2 together, work as follows:—slip the 1st stitch, knit the 2d, and turn the slipped stitch over the knitted one.