(Coarse steel needles and No. 8 White Cotton.) Ravel out tapestry carpet, the ravelings to be about two inches long.

Cast on forty stitches and knit across plain.

Take a piece of raveling, knit it into the stitch by placing it over the needle after it is inserted into the stitch, then bring cotton over needle and draw through the stitch raveling and cotton together.

This may be knit any length. Forty stitches will make a strip a quarter of a yard wide.

When finished, trim off evenly with sharp scissors.

Pieces of silk, two inches long and one inch wide, may be used in place of ravelings.

Quilt, laurel leaf pattern. (A very old design.) This is knit in squares and sewed together, making the four leaves meet.

First Row- Cast on 3 stitches.

Second Row- Thread over, knit 3.

Third Row- Thread over, knit 4.

Fourth Row- Thread over, knit 5.

Fifth Row- There should be six stitches ready. Thread over, knit 1, purl 3, knit 2.

Sixth Row- Thread over, knit 2; thread over, knit 3; thread over, knit 2.

Seventh Row- Thread over, knit 2; purl 5, knit 3.

Eighth Row- Thread over, knit 3; thread over, knit 5; thread over, knit 3.

Ninth Row- Thread over, knit 3; purl 7, knit 4.

Tenth Row- Thread over, knit 4; thread over, knit 7; thread over, knit 4.

Eleventh Row- Thread over, knit 4; purl 9, knit 5.

Twelfth Row- Thread over, knit across needle plain.

Thirteenth row.-Thread over, knit 5; purl 9, knit 6.

Fourteenth Row- Thread over, and knit across plain.

Fifteenth Row- Thread over, knit 6; purl 9, knit 7.

Sixteenth Row- Thread over, knit across plain.

Seventeenth Row- Thread over, knit 7; purl 9, knit 8.

Eighteenth Row- Thread over, knit plain.

Nineteenth Row- Thread over, knit 8; purl 9, knit 9.

Twentieth Row- Thread over, knit plain.

Twenty-First Row- Thread over, knit 9; purl 9, knit 10.

Twenty-Second Row- Thread over, knit 10; slip 1, knit 1, pass the slipped stitch over, knit 5, knit 2 together, knit 10.

Twenty-Third Row- Thread over, knit 10; purl 7, knit 11.

Twenty-Fourth Row- Thread over, knit 11; slip 1, knit 1, pass the slipped stitch over; knit 3, knit 2 together, knit 11.

Twenty-Fifth Row- Thread over, knit 11; purl 5, knit 12.

Twenty-Sixth Row- Thread over, knit 12; slip 1, knit 1 and pass the slip stitch over; knit 1, knit 2 together, knit 12.

Twenty-Seventh Row- Thread over, knit 12; purl 3, knit 13.

Twenty-Eighth Row- Thread over, knit 13; slip l,knit 2 together, pass the slip stitch over and knit 13. This finishes the leaf, and there should be 28 stitches on the needle. The other half of the square is made up of ribs decreasing at the beginning of each row.

Twenty-Ninth Row- Narrow or decrease by knitting 2 together, then purl across.

Thirtieth Row- Narrow and knit plain.

Thirty-First Row- Narrow and purl.

Thirty-Second Row- Narrow and purl.

Thirty-Third Row- Narrow and knit plain.

(Notice 29, 30, and 31, make a ridge.)

Thirty-Fourth Row- Narrow and purl.

(Notice 32, 33, and 34 make a ridge.)

Repeat, narrowing all the time, till there is only one stitch.

There will be three ridges, each narrowing to a point.

When the squares are sewed together (on the right side) the four leaves will diverge from the same centre, and as the quilt is finished the ribs at the corners will make a square of ribs.

Some of the following knitting directions are very old and not even named.

Block Design(The stitches must be divisible by 4.) Knit 4, purl 4, for four rows; then reverse and purl 4 on knit 4, knit 4 on purl 4; reverse in this way every fifth row.

An experienced knitter may vary this by using more or fewer stitches in the block with more or fewer rows.