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Lift the lower or first stitch with a large pin or knitting needle, carry it over the second stitch and drop it over the post; then across the center to the post at the left and repeat. So continue until the desired length is obtained. It will require seven yards of yarn to make one yard of web on the two-post knitter. Flat Web
Dempster's sister undertook to teach me; but I could not learn it . BOSWELL. 'So, Sir; it will be related in pompous narrative, "Once for his amusement he tried knotting; nor did this Hercules disdain the distaff." JOHNSON. 'Knitting of stockings is a good amusement. As a freeman of Aberdeen I should be a knitter of stockings. He asked me to go down with him and dine at Mr.
Often what is a hopelessly tangled mass of sails, ropes, spars and gears to the landsman, is as clear to a sailor as a skein of yarn is to an experienced knitter, who can ply her needles in the dark. It was so on the Mary Ellen when the storm, that had been so long threatening, and half-performing, broke in all its fury.
The young fellows braves it out, some on 'em; but, for me, I lay in my winter's yarn an' set here where 'tis warm, an' knit an' take my comfort. Mother learnt me once when I was a lad; she was a beautiful knitter herself. I was laid up with a bad knee, an' she said 'twould take up my time an' help her; we was a large family. They'll buy all the folks can do down here to Addicks' store.
As soon as I have made the mark in my stocking, I will run home and show it to you." "It is too bad that I cannot go with you," said Simon, sighing. "I wish I had never undertaken the business of bringing up the little Capet. It is hateful work, for I can never leave the Temple, and I am just as much a prisoner as he is." "The republic has done you a great honor," said the knitter, solemnly.
Miss Theodosia slipped out this time into the soft darkness. "Let us hope Aunt Sarah will 'knit fast," she was thinking, with whimsical eyes. "But if she doesn't Theodosia Baxter, dear, if Aunt Sarah is a slow knitter, you are in for it! I've no idea of letting you off. Baxters that begin, end." It was dim starshine out-of-doors.
But I must finish one letter first." She proceeded with her efficient, rapid, and noisy labours. She did not need to look at the keyboard, she was like that type of knitter who knits the while she gazes into space; she had learnt "Now is the time for all good men to come to the help of the party."
"The second pair, if you please," retorted Betty, rejoiced to see Pamela smile, even if at her own expense; "and Miss Bidwell says they are every bit as fine as yours." "But Sally is such a marvelous knitter that she will no doubt rejoice at your success. Had you as severe weather in Lebanon as this? I am fearful that we will have a hard winter, the cold has set in so early."
She kept her eyes on the busy hands and saw that the speed of their movements slackened. "Got up and looked out? What did you do that for?" The time for revelation had come. Susan was a little breathless. "I heard people whispering," she said. The hands came to a stop. But the knitter continued to hold them in the same position, a suspended, waiting expectancy in their attitude.
The woman soothed her children audibly, then called out, asking what we wanted. "I'm a man from Appin," cried out Stewart with great promptness and cunning, "and I have a friend or two with me. I was looking for the house of Kilinchean, where a cousin of mine a fine spinner and knitter, but thrawn in the temper is married on the tenant, and we lost our way.
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