The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness

These bands may be worked round and slid over the hand like muffatees, or made open as we have directed and buttoned, like the glove. The buttons should be covered with crochet, and the loops crocheted. KNITTED UNDER HABIT SHIRT. Three ounces of Three thread White Fleecy Wool. Pair of No. 10 Bone Knitting Pins. Cast on forty-five stitches. Knit three rows. 4th row--Knit ten; X make two and knit two together; knit one; X knit the last six stitches. 5th row--Knit, dropping the second of each of the two made stitches all along. Knit eight rows. 14th row--Knit ten; X make one and knit two together X repeat until six remain; knit three; make one; knit three. 15th row--Knit six; X make one and knit two together X repeat until ten remain, which knit. Repeat these two rows three times more each, only not enlarging one (as in the end of row fourteen), every time, but only once in four rows, merely knitting the six in the intervening rows. 22nd row--Knit. Knit the next seven rows. 30th row--Same as 14th. 31st row--Same as 15th. Keep on alternately knitting eight open, and then eight knitted rows, and enlarging one stitch at the end in every fourth row until there are a hundred and twenty-four rows. Then decrease one stitch at the beginning or front in every other row for thirty-two rows, still continuing the pattern as before, and still enlarging one stitch in every fourth row, at the end or back. This shapes one side of the neck.