This is very handsome for antimacassars in stripes of two or more colours, and also for a baby’s counterpane. For the latter cast on in white petticoat yarn 110 stitches on long wooden pins, No. 6. If when finished you wish it larger put a border in rose-bud pattern. For an antimacassar cast on 1 stitch with fleecy wool and coarse bone pins. Plain knitting, increasing at the commencement of every row, until you have 22. (This pattern is in sixes, and you must have 2 plain stitches at the beginning and end of every row to form a border: these must always be knitted plain. There must be an even number of stitches, 22, 28, 34, according to the width required.)

First row—knit the 22 stitches plain.

Second row—slip 1, knit 1, for the border. * Knit 1, putting the wool three times round the needle. Repeat from *.

Third row—slip 1, knit 1, for the border. * Take off 6 long stitches, and pass the first 3 over the second 3, but do not let the latter run off the left-hand needle; and now knit off these 6 stitches plainly. Repeat from *.

This may sound difficult, but it is really quite the reverse, as it merely consists in putting three stitches over another three, and then knitting these six afterwards.

Do 2 plain rows, and repeat from 2nd row.

When long enough, decrease with plain knitting to match the commencement, and finish off the points with tassels.

The next stripe, if preferred, can be done in a different pattern, only you must remember to make the points, by beginning with one stitch and then increasing up to the requisite number, decreasing in the same manner at the end.