A Leaf Cluster Pattern.
The counterpane here illustrated is in pale blue and white, and is quite a feature in a pale blue bedroom.
Other colours you can obtain are various pinks, greens, pale cream, with the intervening tones right up to full orange, heliotrope, salmon, half-a-dozen different blues, from palest forget-me-not to navy blue, crimson, fawn, and various tints of brown.
But, undoubtedly, for bedspread purposes, there is nothing like the pinks or the blues.
It is best to use patterns that are worked in separate diamonds or squares, and joined later on. This saves a tanglement of various balls, as is inevitable if several colours are all going at once on a large piece of work. When the work is in squares, each alternate square can be in colour; when the work is in diamonds, that begins with one stitch and increase each row till the widest point, and then decrease to the opposite point. Half the diamond is worked in white, and when the widest point is reached the cotton is broken off and the coloured ball joined on, the remaining half being worked in colour.
The pattern here illustrated is the old fashioned leaf-cluster so often seen in ancient knitted counterpanes.
The bedspread is worked in small diamonds, which are joined together by over-sewing.
Use Strutt’s “Milford” Knitting Cotton No. 8, in white and in pale blue (or any other colour required), and a pair of No. 14 steel needles.
Abbreviations Used.
K = knit a plain stitch; P = purl; O = over, that is, bring the thread forward and pass it over the right hand needle, in order to make an