CARDINAL RULES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIX, Issue 21866, 20 January 1941, Page 8

CARDINAL RULES

« - ADVICE TO KNITTERS The “Melbourne Age” publishes a number of interesting hints to knitting recruits. The following may be found useful:— First of all wind your wool very loosely, keep at, least three fingers under the wool as you wind. Always finish a row before you stop. Stitches are more likely to be dropped if you stop mid-way. Don’t push your needles into the wool, neither the ball nor the knitting. The result will be split the wool, and spoil it. Always splice your wool. Unravel both ends and then carefully twist each strand of the new ball, and then twist the wool up tiPhrl” again. If you knit the mllce carefully it should not show at all. Always test your tension. I is important for the correctness of your work that you should knit the same number of stitches to the inch across and the same number of rows to the inch downwards as the directions state. If your tension does not correspond to the direction, a larger or smaller sized needle may be tried. If you have to increase, knit flirt into the back thread, and then into the front one of the same stitch. In lacy patterns, however, it may h “ to pick up a look from the previous row.