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Rh 2nd row: M 1, K.

3rd row: M 1, P.

4th row: M 1, purl.

5th row: M 1, knit plain.

6th row: M 1, purl.

7th row: Ml, purl.

8th row: M 1, knit plain.

9th row: M 1, purl.

a 1

The 10th row begins the piqué pattern.

1st row: M 1, P 1, S 1, letting the thread lie in front of the slipped stitch.

2nd row: M 1, P throughout.

Repeat these three rows five times, but beginning the alternate rows on the right side of the work with a slip stitch after the made one, and then a purl stitch, which will give the honeycomb appearance in the pattern.

Repeat the rows a-a, and begin the second stripe of raised patterns. The row beginning this stripe should have sixty stitches, and has nine leaf patterns. Begin the first leaf pattern after the third purled stitch in the row.

Having knit this stripe, repeat from a-a; then repeat the piqué stripe; repeat from a-a; begin the third leaf row:

When there are 122 stitches on the needles, begin to decrease so as to form the other side of the square. After the made stitch in each row, knit two together, and knit two together before the last stitch.

Throughout the square, never neglect the made stitch at the beginning of every row.

The central part of the border is knit after the same pattern, only omitting the made stitch at the beginning of the rows. This border is edged on the one side with an open work pattern and on the other with a narrow lace. For the open work, cast on four extra stitches