A Pretty Open Stitch for a Purse
Four skeins of fine purse-silk, and four needles, No. 23, will be required.
Cast on twenty stitches on each of three needles.
First round—plain knitting.
Second round—bring the silk forward, knit two together.
Repeat the above two rounds four times.
Eleventh round—plain knitting.—Pass the last stitch of this round, after it is knitted, on to the next needle.
Twelfth round—commence by knitting two together, before bringing the silk forward;—this change causes the pattern to assume a kind of vandyke form. Pass the last stitch of each needle of this round, on to the next needle.
Repeat the two last rounds four times;—commence again as at first round, working alternately the ten rounds of each pattern, until the opening of the purse be required to be made; this is to be worked in rows backwards and forwards, like the first ten rounds, in order to keep the edges even. The other end is then to be made like the first.