String Geekery

Bunny Ears Back

For the pattern I’m working on (Ellerbe Mitts), I came up with an interesting decrease that turns out to have

A stitch from S.F.A. Caulfeild’s Dictionary of Needlework, p. 129, rewritten in modern terms. This is a netlike stitch which

A stitch from S.F.A. Caulfeild’s Dictionary of Needlework, p. 122, rewritten in modern terms. This stitch forms a lattice with

A stitch from S.F.A. Caulfeild’s Dictionary of Needlework, pp. 130-131, rewritten in modern terms. This is an open, netlike stitch

I was fixing some errors in the way I threaded my table loom (I skipped dents while sleying the reed),

A stitch from S.F.A. Caulfeild’s Dictionary of Needlework, pp. 128-129, rewritten in modern terms. Abbreviations: YO = Yarn Over TSS

A stitch from S.F.A. Caulfeild’s Dictionary of Needlework, p. 130, rewritten in modern terms. This stitch has fewer similarities to

So I have a Dover reprint of S.F.A. Caulfeild’s Dictionary of Needlework. (Dover gave it a new title: Encyclopedia of

Okay, say you’re knitting a doily from the center outward and you know how many rounds the whole doily is.

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