First row—bring the wool forward, knit two together; knit one.—Repeat.
Second row—plain knitting.
Repeat these two rows, alternately.
When knitting sleeves, or any other article, where decreasing is necessary, knit two together, at the beginning of every second row.
A Chancelière.
Six-thread fleecy, say two colours, blue and drab.—Needles, No. 14.
Cast on forty-two stitches, and knit six, or eight, patterns, (see directions next page), alternately drab and blue, until a piece about twenty-four inches in length be worked. Then—with one colour—knit, in a similar manner, a band about thirty inches in length, and three or four inches wide, to form the sides.
In brioche stitch, work two corresponding pieces, with white, to form the lining. These four pieces are to be wadded, and mounted, in the usual form. The opening for the feet should be edged with a worsted ermine trimming.
The pattern is knitted as follows;—