Now fasten on a still darker shade of lavender in the ninth purled row, and knit and purl alternately six more rows, making one stitch at the beginning of the plain row, and taking two stitches together at the beginning of the purled rows. Cast off the seven stitches, which completes one petal. Break the wool about a yard and a half from the work, thread a rug needle with it, and bring the wool along the left edge of the petal first made to the next stitches on the needle. Make one stitch, knit three, turn back, and continue exactly as for the first petal. When you have thus worked all the stitches into five petals, cover a wire, by twisting one thread of split lavender wool round it, and sew it round the edges of the petals. Mount the flower on a piece of wire to form a stem, having first placed five short yellow stamens in the centre of the corolla; twist all the wires together, and cover the stem with green wool.
Leaves.—Cast on one stitch with a pretty bright shade of green split wool.
1st row.—Make one stitch, knit one.
2d row.—Make one, purl two.
4th row.—Make one, purl the row.
5th row.—Make one, knit one, make one, knit two.
6th row.—Make one, purl the row.
7th row.—Knit the row, increasing one before and one stitch after the middle stitch.
8th row.—Purl the row.