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252 also the advantage of being very simple. The pattern will be best understood by a reference to the border. The centre of the quilt is knit in squares which are so knit as to cause the pattern to run diagonally across them.

Cast on one stitch, and knit nine rows of plain garter stitch, always throwing the thread round the needle at the beginning of each row.

When you have ten stitches on your needle, which should be at the end of the ninth row, proceed as follows:

10th row: M 1, P 4, M 1, K 1, M 1, P 5.

11th row: M 1, knit plain all the stitches till you come to the first made stitch in the last row, purl three, knit plain to the end of the row.

12th row: M 1, purl all the stitches until you come to those purled in the last row. M 1, K 3, M 1, purl to the end of the row.

13th row : M 1, K all the stitches to the raised pattern, purl five, K to the end of the row.

14th row: M 1, purl to the raised pattern, M 1, K 1, slip one, knit two together and pass the slipped stitch over them. K 1, M 1, purl to end of row.

15th row: M 1, K to raised pattern, purl five, K to end of row.

Repeat fourteenth and fifteenth rows six times more.

Then M 1, P to raised pattern, K 1, S 1, knit two together, draw slipped stitch over these, K 1; P to end of row.

In the next row, M 1, knit to pattern, P 3, knit to end of row.

To finish the raised pattern, knit the three stitches together. The other stitches of this row are purled.

This finishes one stripe of the square. Now knit as follows:

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1st row: M 1, P.