CASE FOR KNITTING AND DARNING - NEEDLES . BY MRS. JANE WEAVER.
MATERIALS . -Fine ticking, white flannel, five yards and a half of lilac sarcenet ribbon , yellow silk cordon, lilac sewing-silk, and two little black buttons. The foundation is ten inches long and seven inches broad. It is ornamented with loose stitches of lilac Berlin wool (see above. ) The inside is furnished with a piece of flannel fifteen inches long, and six inches and a half broad, turned in two inches and a half on both sides. A strap of sarcenet, ornamented with yellow silk cordon, is placed across the middle for holding the knitting- needles, and a piece of flannel at the side for the darning- needles, men-
suring four inches in length and two inches and a half in breadth, bound with ribbon like the rest, and ornamented with a yellow border of herring-bone stitch. The flannel and ticking parts are bound together with ribbon. One of the flannel ends turned back is left disengaged, the other is fastened as a pocket. Three sides are ornamented with a ruche and herring- bone stitch. Two ribbons, five inches long, with bows and silk eyes, and two buttons, four inches and a half distant, for fastening the case, are placed underneath the ruche. Embroidered leather canvas, Java canvas, or an applique upon cloth or reps would make a very good foundation instead of the ticking.
BOY'S GAITER. BY MRS . JANE WEAVER. MATERIALS. -One ounce of white, quarter of an ounce of colored Perlin wool, four knittingpins, No. 15, (bell gauge. ) Begin at the upper edge with white wool. Cast on sixty-three stitches-twenty on each of two pins, and twenty-three on the third. The twelfth stitch on the third pin is knitted to form the seam at the back. Knit eighteen rows as for a stocking, alternately, two plain, two purled ; then, with colored wool, one row plain, two rows purled ; then,
with white, three rows plain ; then colored one row plain, and two purled . For the broad, white stripe, alternately, as follows :-Purl one, knit one, (the back part of this stitch is knitted in each instance, ) so as to form a narrow perpendicular stripe. The whole stripe contains seven rows ; then the colored is repeated, then the plain white stripe, and so on until, according to design, there are twelve narrow colored stripes. Between them there must, however, be a decrease in the same manner as for the 227
