Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 235, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1918 — USEFUL HINTS TO KNITTERS [ARTICLE]

USEFUL HINTS TO KNITTERS

Things to Do and Not to Do, According to Advice by an Authority 1 to Beginner*. Here are a few suggestions offered* by an authority for beginners knitting socks: Keep scissors, tape measure and wax in knitting bag and a large-eyed needle pinned on sock, ready to splice yarn, and wax end of yarn before put-’ ting In needle. Stitches are more easily taken u> if needle is put in top of stitch, butl first time knitting around knit the lower part of It, or it will be one-sided. If you drop the loop of a knit stitch,; place it on needle back of stitch, in-i sert the needle in stitch, as if to pull,; and put over, loop; If it-1* a purledl stitch, place loop in front of stitch: and bring stitch over loop toward &ons. A stitch dropped several rows can be taken up with crochet needle placed in stitch; with hook down, pick up first loop, turn needle and take up another; continue until all are taken Up.