_Second row_--plain knitting, with large needle.
_Third row_--plain knitting, with small needle.
_Fourth row_--pearl knitting, with small needle.
Repeat, from the first row.
This kind of knitting is also well adapted for hoods, muffs, cuffs, etc.
It is very pretty for a shawl in stripes,--knitting three patterns
alternately of each colour. For a shawl, one yard and a half square,
about three hundred and sixty stitches would be required.
A Russian Shawl, in Brioche Stitch.
German wool.--No. 9 needles.
For a shawl one yard and a half square, about three hundred and sixty
stitches will be required.--Five shades each, of two different colours,
turned back, with the lightest in the centre, knitting two rows of each
shade, look very well.--The following are good colours,--scarlet and
stone colour,--blue and brown,--lilac and red brown,--lilac and white.
The Brioche-stitch is simply--bring the wool forward, slip one; knit two
together.
A light Stitch for a Shawl.
Three-thread fleecy.--No. 10 needles.
Cast on any even number of stitches.--Bring the wool forward, knit two
together, alternately, to the end of the row. Every row is the same.
Star Pattern Shawl, in Two Colours.
Cast on four stitches in blue Zephyr wool, or four-thread fleecy.--No. 6
needles.
_First row_--bring the wool forward, knit one,--(these two stitches form
the increase, and therefore are _not_ to be _repeated_); bring the wool
forward, slip one; knit two, pass the slip-stitch over them.--Repeat the
same to the end of the row.
_Second row_--pearl knitting in claret.
_Third row_--the same as first,--in blue.
_Fourth row_--the same as second,--in claret.
Repeat these rows alternately, in blue and claret, until there are one
hundred and eighty stitches on the needle; cast off, and finish with a
netted fringe.
As the increasing adds an irregular stitch, some rows will have one, and
others two knitted stitches, at their commencement.
Barege Knitting for Shawls.
Commence with any number of stitches that may be divided by three.--No.
4 needles, finest _Lady Betty's_ wool.--Knit one plain row.
_Second row_--bring the wool forward, knit three; bring the wool
forward, knit three together, taking them off at the back.
_Third row_--pearl knitting.
_Fourth row_--bring the wool forward, knit three together, taking them
off at the back; bring the wool forward, knit three.
_Fifth row_--
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