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KNITTED

DRAWERS .

BY MRS. JANE WEAVER.

MATERIALS.-Oz . double zephyr ; pair wooden 13 stitches purled for the center of the back). needles, about one- quarter of an inch thick ; Repeat this until you have 3 rows knit. pair No. 10 steel needles. The 15 stitches for the fronts are not to be Cast on 50 stitches. knitted in the three rows just described, the 1st Row. -Knit plain. back only to be knit, in order to make the back 2nd Row. - Purl. 3 rows longer than the fronts. Seam or purl 1 row between every block. Make two blocks in 3rd Row.- Knit plain. 4th Row.-Purl. Repeat this until you have this way for the back, and knit to the end of the needle in the seam. knitted 24 rows. 25th Row. - Take off the 1st stitch without Then knit in blocks all the way out, (observknitting, then bring the thread forward and ing to make the blocks come evenly one over knit one. Kepeat this to the end of the needle. the other, ) picking up 4 stitches on each side 26th Row.- Knit plain. where you have knit the back longer. Continue 27th Row. - Purl. these blocks until you have 13 ribs or rows of 28th Row. - Knit plain. blocks. In the middle of the back, in the block 29th Row. -Purl. Repeat until you have knit that has the 13 stitches, narrow 1 stitch in 12 rows. every other block, so that when you have the Put 15 stitches plain for each side of the 13 rows of blocks completed, you will have but front, and knit the center stitches of the back 6 stitches in the middle block, which at the in blocks of 4 stitches each, that is, knit 4 beginning had 13 stitches. Now change the stitches plain, then 4 stitches purl (allowing needles, using the steel ones, divide the stitches 174