Begin with scarlet, if preferred, as above; but this pattern is given for entire white wool.
Cast on 120, and knit 25 inches plain, then rib by doing 2 plain and 2 pearl for 24 rows. Cast off. Do another breadth; and for the 3rd and front breadth you must, after the first 12 rounds, decrease at the beginning and end of each row about every two inches. If you do not like to have a gored breadth do this one exactly the same as the other two. Crochet some scalloped edges round the bottom of the petticoat, after having joined the breadths together. These petticoats are beautifully warm and last for a long time. Summer ones can be knitted with the same pins in Scotch wheeling-yarn or 2-thread fleecy, which are much cheaper but not so nice and soft. It makes a charming finish to put a border as on [page 44]. You need only make the petticoat 24 inches long in that case.
For a Common Quilt.
Cast on with cotton 2 stitches, use pins about No. 14, and increase every row. Do 6 rows of plain and 6 of pearl, so as to make lengthway ribs. When half a square is done decrease at the beginning of every row. When a sufficient number of squares are finished join together with a square piece of calico between each knitted one. Thus: take a piece of calico, turn down the raw edges, double it to the size of the knitted square, and tack the two edges together. Then sew the knitting and the calico together, as if you were doing patchwork. The raw edges of the calico must, of course, be turned inwards, meeting each other so as not to be seen even on the wrong side of the quilt. This is a quick and neat quilt, but is not so pretty as the other patterns.
Quilt. Laurel-Leaf Pattern.
Cotton, and pins No. 14 or 15. It makes a beautiful berceaunette cover in 2 or 3-thread fleecy, and bone pins. The price so entirely depends on the size of quilt desired that it is impossible to give it exactly. It is a very handsome pattern.
This quilt is made in squares and joined afterwards.
Cast on 1, and you must not forget to increase at the beginning of every row.
Second and third rows—plain knitting.
Fourth row—increase (by putting the cotton round the needle) before every stitch.