The ladies' knitting and netting book Author:Watts Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: up 4 stitches for the gusset at the bottom of the 1st finger, 16 plain stitches, and 19 of the pattern. The other 2 fingers are done in the same manner: 14 plain... more » stitches, 19 of the pattern, for the third finger, and 12 plain stitches and 19 of the pattern for the 4th finger, these numbers do not include the gusset stitches. When finished, sew a piece of lace round the top, and run a narrow ribbon in the holes. Plain open Mittens. Begin on a round foundation of 30 or 34 stitches, with a mesh No. 14, and moderately fine silk. Net 6 rounds, net 1 round with the silk twice round the mesh, (for the ribbon to run in,) and 6 rounds with it once round the mesh; in the next round, net 14 stitches, increase 1 stitch in both the following stitches, complete the These stitches may be decreased again or not. round, and net 2 rounds without increase. Increase again in the next round before and after the stitches in which you increased before ; net 2 rounds. Continue to increase 2 stitches every 3rd round until you have increased 7 times on each side, (to make the thumb fit nicely, the increase stitches should be made over each other for the last 3 times.) Net 1 round and the 14 thumb stitches. Net the thumb round for a round or two, and decrease by netting 2 together, if necessary, until the thumb fits tight; when it is nearly long enough net 1 round, 2 stitches in every stitch twice round the mesh; 1 round, taking the 2 stitches together, on a finer mesh, and 2 rounds on the fine mesh to finish. Cut off the silk, and fasten it on at one side of the thumb, make 2 stitches on each side and continue to net until the mitten is long enough. Finish the hand in the same way in which the thumb was finished. If it be thought an improvement, the 4 last rows can be repeated at the wri...« less