n piece of stocking
web requires to be replaced by new, draw the new and the old pieces
together with a needle and thread, using the same thread the stocking is
made of.

[Illustration: FIG. 368. REPAIRING PLAIN KNITTING.]

For this purpose, you must clear the loops, by ravelling them out top
and bottom, and slip them on to knitting needles. The loops that are to
be connected must lie exactly opposite to each other. Enter your
threaded needle upwards from below through the first disengaged upper
loop, and slip it off the knitting needle, then enter the needle,
downwards from above through the first lower loop, and upwards from
below through the next, and draw out just enough thread to make the new
loop the same size as the old ones. Then enter the needle, downwards
from above, through the same upper loop you took up before, taking up
also the one next to it, and passing your needle through it from
underneath; draw out the thread to form the new loop and descend again
to the next, and so on.

REPAIRING PURLED KNITTING (fig. 369).--To repair ribbed surfaces
consisting of alternate rows of plain and purl, proceed as follows: hold
the article so that the row of purled stitches is exactly opposite the
upper part. Enter your needle upwards from below, through the first
loop of the upper part; join the two lower loops together as in fig.
368; carry the needle upwards again, and enter it upwards from below
through the first loop of the upper part and downwards from above,
through the loop next it. Join the lower loops again, as in plain
knitting.

[Illustration: FIG. 369. REPAIRING PURLED KNITTING.]

DISENGAGING THE LOOPS FOR DARNING (fig. 370).--Where the threads are
broken, new loops have to be made, and the broken ones ravelled out and
cut, so that the horizontal loops may stand out clear and distinct. Cut
the threads on the vertical sides so that the loops form an edge and the
hole is square, clear two or four loops in the corners of the hole, fold
them in and fasten them off at the back by a stitch or two. The darns we
are next going to describe should be made upon a ball to prevent drawing
the threads too tightly.

[Illustration: FIG. 370. DISENGAGING THE LOOPS FOR DARNING.]

DARNING ON THREADS STRETCHED HORIZONTALLY (figs. 371 and 372).--Carry
a horizontal thread across on the wrong side, in the place of each
broken thread, securing it in the sound part of the stocking, about two
threads from the edge of the hol