of the front of the shoe, leaving 9 stitches between the two decreasings.  The number of stitches between the decreasings decreases with every round, so that the decreasings form slanting lines meeting in a point.  Cast off after these 8 rounds, by knitting together 2 opposite stitches on the wrong side.  The sock part is edged with a raised red border, which is worked by taking all the red stitches of the 1st round of the shoe on the needle and knitting 4 rounds, so as to leave the purled side of the stitch always outside; then cast off very tight.  Draw a piece of braid through the open-work row in the sock part, and finish it off at either end with tassels to match.

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327.—­Knitted Border for a Bedquilt.

Materials:  Messrs. Walter Evans and Co.’s No. 8 white knitting cotton; thick steel pins.

Cast on a sufficient number of stitches for the length of the border, which must be able to be divided by 31; knit 4 plain rows: 

5th row:  Alternately make 1, knit 2 together.

Then 5 more plain rows.

[Illustration 327.—­Knitted Border for a Bedquilt.]

Now begin the pattern:—­1st row:  * Make 1, knit 1 slantways (to knit a stitch slantways, insert the needle from the front to the back and from right to left); # purl 5; knit 1 slantways.  Repeat from # 4 times more than from * to the end of the row.

2nd row:  Purled.

3rd row:  Knit 2, * make 1; knit 1 slantways; # purl 5; knit 1 slantways.  Repeat from # four times more.  Repeat from * to the end of the row.

4th row:  The same as the second.

The continuation of the work is clearly shown in our illustration.  The increasing caused by knitting the made stitches is regularly repeated in each second row, so that the stitches between the striped divisions increase, and form large triangles; the striped divisions, on the other hand, are narrowed so as to form the point of the triangles.  To obtain this result, decrease five times in the 6th, 12th, 18th, and 24th rows, by purling together the two last stitches of one purled division, so that each division has but eleven stitches left in the 25th row.  In the 28th row knit together one purled stitch with one knitted slantways, so that there will be only 6 stitches left for each division; these stitches are knitted slantways in the 29th and 30th rows.  In the 31st row they are knitted together, two and two.  There remain in each division three more stitches, which are knitted together in the 34th row.  Two rows entirely purled completethe upper edge of the border.

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328.—­Knitted Quilt.

Materials:  8-thread fleecy wool; wooden needles.

This pattern may be worked in narrow strips of different colours, and in that case each strip should contain 1 row of patterns; or the quilt may be composed of wide strips with several rows of patterns, those of one row being placed between those of the preceding.  In the first case, that is if you work narrow strips, you may use several colours; but if wide strips are preferred, they should be of two colours only.  Our pattern was worked in wide strips, alternately grey and red.  Each strip is knitted the short way.