[Illustration: TO KNIT TWO PIECES TOGETHER.]
To reverse two, three, or more stitches together, insert the needle in them all at once, _from the last to the first_.
TO TAKE UP STITCHES.--Insert the needle in the loop, pass the thread round, and knit it in the usual manner. Do not draw out any loop more than can be avoided, while knitting it.
TO KNIT TWO PIECES TOGETHER.--To do this there must be an equal number of stitches on both.
Hold the needles together in the right hand, and knit as usual, inserting the left-hand needle in a loop of each at the same time, and treating the two as one.
TO FORM A ROUND:--This diagram represents the French manner of performing this process by casting the whole number of stitches on one needle, and then distributing them on three, or perhaps four. But the English mode is to divide the number of stitches, and cast so many on each needle, not withdrawing the last stitch of each needle from the point of the next needle. When all are cast on, the round is made by knitting the _two first_ stitches on to the last needle. Four needles are employed for stockings, five for doyleys and other round articles.
To cast off:--knit two stitches, insert the point of the left hand needle in the first stitch, and draw it on the other. Knit another stitch, and treat these two in the same way.
MATERIALS.--1 ounce of white Berlin wool. 1 skein of white, and 1 of embroidery wool, 4 knitting needles, No. 21, and 2, No. 19.
With the fine needles cast 30 stitches on one, and 20 on each of two others. Join into a round, and purl one round.
[Illustration: INFANT'S SHOE, IN KNITTING]
1st pattern round: X slip 2, taking them off the needle in the same way as if you were going to purl them, but with the wool at the back; knit 3. X repeat all round.
7th to 10th inclusive: X knit 3, slip 2 as before, X repeat all round, 11th and 12th purled.
13th to 16th inclusive: X knit 2, slip 2 as before, knit 1, X repeat all round.
17th and 18th purled. Repeat these 18 rounds again.
Then do the same twice more; but, instead of knitting three stitches, always decrease by knitting two together (once) on the needle that has the thirty stitches in every row which is not plainly purled, until only twelve stitches are left on it.