To pearl a Row.—To knit with the thread before the needle.
To rib.—To work alternate rows of plain, and pearl, knitting.
To bring the thread forward.—To make a stitch, by bringing the thread forward, after a knitted stitch.
To pass the thread over.—To make a stitch, by passing the thread over the needle, after a pearled stitch.
To make a stitch.—If after a knitted stitch, this is done by bringing the thread forward;—if after a pearled stitch,—by passing the thread over.—To make a stitch between two pearled stitches, the thread must be turned round the needle; that is,—passed over the needle, and brought again in front; but, to make a stitch between a pearled stitch and a knitted stitch,—the thread must only be passed over the needle.
To turn the thread round the needle.—If the thread is before the needle, to pass it over the needle, and bring it again in front.
To bring the thread forward twice.—To bring the thread forward, and then, by turning it round the needle, to bring it forward again.
To increase.—To make a stitch.
To decrease.—To knit two stitches, taken together, in one.