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THE nOVSEffOLI^ 



Tin. 1.— KNITTED DRESSING SLIPPER. 



Knitted Dressing ^Xiwer.— Materials required: Four ounce blue and 



four ounce "white 



Berlin wool; four 

 pius No. 12 (Walk- 

 er's gauge), and a 

 pair of cork soles. 



Commence tlie 

 slipper at the toe 

 ■with blue wool, 

 cast on ten stitches, 

 increase by initting 

 the wool over the 

 pin at beginning of 

 each row to make a stitch. Fig. 2 shows the outside of work, and Fig. 3 the 

 inside with loops of white wool. Wlien knitting 

 with the Avhito wool take it from two balls so as 

 to have two lengths. 

 1st Row: Knit plain. 



2d Row: Make one, knit one, * take the dou- 

 ble white wool, turn it twice over the pin to form 

 a loop of about three-quarters of an inch (see 

 design), with the left-hand pin pass the last 

 knitted loop over the four loops of white, knit 

 two, repeat from * to the end of the row. 



3d Row: Make one at the beginning of the 

 row, slip the loops of white wool, knit the blue; ^^^ 2.— detail of fig. 1. 

 in knitting the blue stitch pass the blue wool 

 with which you are knitting round the double white wool; in knitting the 



FIG. 3.— DETAIL OF FIG. 1. 



next stitch this will draw up the white wool close to the work and 

 BO carrv it to the other side to be ready for working the next row ot loops. 

 4th Row: Make one, knit the blue stitchea plain, knit the four white loopa 

 fit the back as one stitch. _ , 



