Terms used in Knitting,
To increase, or make.—With your right-hand pin knit through the lower part of the next stitch as well as through the next stitch. Or, if at the beginning of a row, knit the first stitch, then knit again through it from the back. Or, put the wool before the needle, but this makes a hole. Or, cast on another stitch, and then knit it.
To decrease.—Knit 2 stitches at the same time so as to make 1 out of the 2. Or, slip a stitch from the left pin to the right without knitting it, knit the next stitch, then with your left pin pull the slipped stitch over the knitted one.
To pearl, or purl, or seam.—Bring the wool in front of the knitting, and insert the needle the reverse way through the stitch. Replace the wool in its right place.
To raise, or pick up.—Put your right needle through the knitting, put the wool round the needle, and draw the wool through the knitting.
MOTHER’S KNITTER.
THE STANDARD OF MEASUREMENT FOR THE KNITTING PINS IS CHAMBERS’ BELL GAUGE.
Child’s Jacket or Spencer.
This fastens behind, and fits a child of about eight months’ old; it is very elastic, and quite an easy pattern.
You require 3 pins No. 8, and 2 ounces Berlin fingering.