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to and including the stage illustrated and described in section 487. 
Proceeding now from the right, drop two (front strands )and pick 
up one (back one), passing it to the left, and so onto the right mid- 
dle finger (fig. 223). Now drop two and pick up two (each time 
splitting a pair), and so complete the series, taking care that every 
two from the back passes to the left of the corresponding two in 
front. Upon completion a single back strand will remain on the 
extreme left. Replace the finger with a fourth mesh stick (4) and 
treat it exactly as before. 
497, Starting from the left, drop two, and pick up two, with simi- 
lar precautions as to passing the back ones to the right of the front 
ones (again each time splitting a pair), and place them on left mid- 
j dle finger (fig. 224). 
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a i extreme right back 
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ie i porarily (with — left 
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to the single free front 
one. Pick up the re- 
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‘1G. 225.—Two-and-one pattern baby sling in course the finoer with a fifth 
of manufacture. p 2. 
stick (5), ete. 
498. For the next row work from right to left (fig. 225) as in 
section 496, then from left to right as in section 497, and so make 
row after row alternately right and left on the lines already men- 
tioned until completed. 
499, The whole sling may thus be composed entirely of one pat- 
tern, but very often it is varied here and there with two or three 
rows of the two-and-two pattern. This can be introduced whenever 
the completed stage described in section 497 is reached by starting 
from the right, picking up the first front pair, and then dropping 
two and picking up two, etc., as in section 488. Similarly, a reversal 
from the two-and-two to the two-and-one pattern can be effected 
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