The materials for this pretty quilt are one pound of six-thread fleecy wool, one-quarter of a pound of blue or pink ditto, a pair of wooden knitting-needles, No. 8, eagle card-board gauge, and a coarse crochet-hook and rug-needle. The quilt may be done in cotton, if preferred; but we advise wool to be used, as so much warmer. Cast on one hundred and thirty-five stitches, or any other number which can be divided by twenty-four, and leave fifteen over. At the beginning of every row, slip off a stitch, without knitting, putting the needle in as if you were going to purl it, and at the end knit a stitch, taking it through the centre instead of the front of the loop, as is usually done. These stitches are not reckoned in the receipt, as they are invariably the same.
First Row.—Knit 13, + make 1, slip 1, knit 1, pass the slip-stitch over, * 6 times knit 12 + repeat to the end of the row.
Second Row, and all the other alternate rows are purled.
Third, Fifth, Seventh, Ninth, and Eleventh Rows.—Like first.
Thirteenth Row.—Knit 1, + * make 1, slip 1, knit 1, pass the slip-stitch over * 6 times knit 12 + repeat to the end of the row, which will end with the +, make 1, slip 1, knit 1, pass the slip-stitch over + 6 times.
Fifteenth, Seventeenth, Nineteenth, Twenty-first, and Twenty-third Rows.—Like the thirteenth.
Twenty-fourth Row.—Purled like all the other alternate rows. This completes one pattern, and the twenty-four rows are to be repeated until the piece of knitting is as long as is desired, when cast off. Now thread a large rug-needle with wool of the other color; fasten it on at the corner of one of the plain squares; take the needle through the centre of the square, to the opposite corner, and then the next, in a diagonal line downwards, returning in the same stitches, twisting the needle in every loop of wool. When all the plain squares are thus worked in one direction, do them in the same way from corner to corner in the opposite direction. Thus every plain square will have a colored cross on it, the open squares being left without.
A bassinet quilt might be done in stripes of two colors, each being worked with the other color. For this purpose, cast on thirty-nine stitches only for each stripe, and make them an uneven number, three, five, or seven, so that the same color may be at each edge. They must be neatly sewed together. When the centre of the quilt is done, work one round of open square crochet, with three stitches close together in every corner. In these open squares knit a fringe three and a half inches deep, and composed of the two colors.
