Cast on any number of stitches that can be divided by three.
First row—bring the wool forward, slip one; knit two together.—Repeat.
Second row—knit two; slip the long stitch.—Repeat.
Third row—knit two together;(a) bring the wool forward, slip one; knit two together.—Repeat from ([a]).—Finish with—bring the wool forward, knit one.
Fourth row—knit one; slip one;(b) knit two; slip one.—Repeat from ([b]).
Commence again, as at [first row].
A Warm Half-square Shawl.
German wool—used double.—Needles, No. 6.—Scarlet, and four shades of bright green slate colour, form a pretty contrast. The shawl should be worked in alternate stripes of the two colours; each stripe being composed of four patterns,—that is, one pattern in each shade of the green slate colour, and four patterns in scarlet.