It is necessary, in giving or following directions for knitting, to caution knitters to observe a medium in their work—not knitting either too loosely or too tightly.
The Standard Filière.
[THE STANDARD FILIÈRE.]
The above engraving represents the Standard Filière, or knitting and netting needle guage, an instrument invented some time since by Miss Lambert, and now in general use, by which the different sizes of knitting and netting needles can be ascertained with the greatest accuracy.
Cable Plait Stitch for a Quilt.
This forms a very warm quilt. It may be made in stripes or bands, of about seven inches in width, each band containing four repetitions of the pattern.—Three needles, No. 1, will be required, one of which must be pointed at either end.
Cast on forty-two stitches with nine-thread fleecy.
First row—knit two;(a) pearl six; knit four.—Repeat from ([a]).