298.--Spiral Stitch.
Materials: Needles, thick steel or bone; double wool.
This stitch is far more effective worked in thick wool than in cotton. It is done in stripes alternately wide and narrow. For wide stripes cast on twenty-one stitches, for narrow fifteen; this without counting the first and last stitch, the first being slipped, the last always plainly knitted.
1st Row.--Purl 3 together to end of row.
2nd Row.--Make 1, * 1 plain, make 2, repeat from * end by making the last stitch before the plain knitted one at end of row.
299.--Knotted Stitch.