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256 This lace makes very pretty edging knit in linen thread, with moderately coarse needles.

Fig. 122 as seen in the illustration, is knit in blocks, six segments being required for each block.

Cast on forty-one stitches.

1st row: Slip first stitch, purl eighteen, put your needle in at the back of next stitch, slip it off without knitting, knit next two together, putting in the needle at the back (T. B. hereafter will be used to designate knitting two together in at the back of the stitch), put the slipped stitch over the one just knitted, purl nineteen.

2nd row: Knit plain. The first stitch of each row should be slipped.

3rd row: Knit two, * make one, T B, repeat to the middle, take in three at the back, repeat to the end of the row, knitting the last two stitches plain.

4th row: Knit plain.

5th row: Knit two, make one, T B * knit two, purl two, repeat from * to the middle, take in three at the back, knit to the end in the opposite direction, so that the last six stitches will be knit thus—knit two, make one, T B, knit two.

6th row: Knit four, then alternately purl two, and knit two plain the last four stitches, which are knit alike at the end of every row, viz., make one, T B, knit two.

Repeat these last two rows, until all the ribbed knitting is narrowed off to a single stitch, after which knit plain, always remembering to take in three stitches at the back in every alternate row.

Figure 123 shows how these sections are put together. A few long stitches are worked with a needle in the centre.

When the blocks are all knitted, they are sewed together, half blocks being used down the sides, so as to form a straight edge. If preferred, the ends can be