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    A Knitting-Book of Counterpanes, Toilet-Covers, Pincushions, and Other Articles of Fancy Work
    A Knitting-Book of Counterpanes, Toilet-Covers, Pincushions, and Other Articles of Fancy Work
    A Knitting-Book of Counterpanes, Toilet-Covers, Pincushions, and Other Articles of Fancy Work
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    A Knitting-Book of Counterpanes, Toilet-Covers, Pincushions, and Other Articles of Fancy Work

    By George Cupples

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    This vintage book contains a detailed guide to knitting, with directions for making toilet-covers, pincushions, and many other articles of fancy work. Highly-accessible and written with the novice in mind, this volume is ideal for those with little previous knitting experience, and would make for a fantastic addition to collections of related literature. Contents include: “Knitting”, “Preface”, “Explanation of Terms”, “Patterns For Counterpanes Knitted in Squares or Small Pieces”, “Patterns for Counterpanes Knitted in Stripes”, “Patterns for Knitted Edgings“, and “A Pattern for Fringe”. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on knitting. This book was first published in 1871.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead Books Ltd.
    Release dateJun 14, 2011
    ISBN9781446549742
    A Knitting-Book of Counterpanes, Toilet-Covers, Pincushions, and Other Articles of Fancy Work

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      A Knitting-Book of Counterpanes, Toilet-Covers, Pincushions, and Other Articles of Fancy Work - George Cupples

      PREFACE.

      THE warm reception and extensive circulation which is being accorded to her former work, The Stocking Knitter’s Manual, as a handbook for the family, and a guide to teachers, has encouraged the author to undertake the present treatise on the art of knitting Counterpanes, and other useful and ornamental additions to domestic neatness and economy.

      The patterns which are herein presented have not, so far as the author is aware, been hitherto given in a practical form, as she has either procured them from friends, who regarded them as family pieces of long standing, or, as in the case of the open work patterns, they have been copied from a roll, supposed to be of very ancient date. If in any case she has been mistaken, the fault is an accidental, not a deliberate one.

      Although intended, in the first instance, for Counterpanes, the intelligent worker will not fail to perceive that the patterns are suitable for other descriptions of ornamental knitting, such as Tidies, Toilet Covers, Pincushions, Mats, etc. They are divided into two classes:

      1st, Patterns to be worked in small pieces.

      2d, Patterns to be worked in stripes.

      With these a great variety of combinations may be obtained—such as a square centre, and a striped border—at the fancy of the knitter; and a few patterns for Edgings and Fringe have been added to make the work more complete.

      The coarseness or fineness of the cotton and needles is left to the taste of the knitter, whether the work is intended to be gone through with speed, or greater elaboration is required. The coarser the material the larger the work; but, as a general rule, No. 8 Cotton, and No. 14 Needles, may be used for coarser, and No. 18 Cotton, with No. 16 Needles, for finer work. Care should be taken to proportion the Cotton to the size of the Needles.

      An explanation of the Terms used in the Notation of the patterns is given, and a very little study will make them intelligible to the learner.

      The art of knitting has become such a favourite and congenial employment for female hands, whether in the drawing-room, the workroom, by the sea-side, or in the quiet repose of some rural shade, that the providing of any number of suitable patterns is sure to be warmly received; and the author of the present little Manual trusts, that the care bestowed upon its accuracy may meet with the approval of all those, who cultivate this delightful means of filling up a

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