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Rh wool. The plain strips are forty stitches, the Roman ones fifty stitches wide, It is finished at either end by a fringe of the different colors used in the several stripes. For the Roman stripe, begin with * eighteen rows of red, one of white, one of red, one of yellow, one of blue, one of red, one of blue, one of white, eighteen of blue, one of white, one of red, one of yellow, one of blue, one of red, one of blue, one of white, eighteen of black, one of white, one of red, one of yellow, one of blue, one of red, one of white, one of bine, eighteen of white, one of blue, one of white, one of red, one of yellow, one of blue, one of red, one of white, repeat from *.

A very comfortable and substantial shawl is a square knit in garter stitch, and bordered with one of the knit edgings given a little further on. Germantown wool is very nice for this purpose.

is an extremely pretty and useful stitch. It is very elastic, and looks the same on both sides. Cast on any even number of stitches, and with two needles work backward and forward as follows:

1st row: Over (at the edge this is done by simply putting the right hand needle under the wool), slip one, as if about to purl it, knit one. Repeat from the beginning.

2nd row: Over, slip one, as if about to purl, knit two together. Repeat.

Every subsequent row is like the second. In casting off, look upon the double stitch—the two usually knit together—as one. In narrowing in this pattern, knit together the three stitches—the slipped stitch and the double stitch—which form one rib, and on the next row knit the stitch thus made with the double stitch preceding it.

is another form of this stitch. In knitting it, cast on any number of stitches in threes All the rows are knit thus: Slip one, as if about to purl