ion.

_Fourth row_--pearl knitting.

_Fifth row_--same as third.

A Quilt, or Couvre-Pied, in squares.

This may be worked with Zephyr fleecy,--No. 9 needles, each piece being
about three and a half inches square. Every square is worked in two
colours,--as blue and white; lilac and white; gold colour and white;
green and white; etc. These pieces are afterwards to be joined together,
arranging them, according to their several colours. Each square,
however, if preferred, may be worked the same. The following directions
are for a square in green and white:--

_First row_--bring the wool forward, knit one,--in green. Work _five_
more _rows_, in the same manner, when there should be seven stitches on
the needle.

_Seventh row_--bring the wool forward, knit two,--in green; join on the
white,--knit three;--join on another length of green,--knit two.

_Eighth row_--bring the green wool forward, knit two; pearl three,
white; knit three, green.

_Ninth, and Tenth rows_--knit to the end of each row, with green,
increasing at the beginning, as before.

_Eleventh row_--bring the wool forward, knit two, green; knit seven,
white; knit two, green.

_Twelfth row_--bring the wool forward, knit two, green; pearl seven,
white; knit three, green.

_Thirteenth, and Fourteenth rows_--knit to the end of each row, with
green, increasing, as before.

_Fifteenth row_--bring the wool forward, knit two, green; knit eleven,
white; knit two, green.

_Sixteenth row_--bring the wool forward, knit two, green; pearl eleven,
white; knit three, green.

_Seventeenth, and Eighteenth rows_--same as thirteenth and
fourteenth.--There should now be nineteen stitches on the needle,--one
half of the square being completed. The decreasing then commences as
follows:--

_Nineteenth row_--slip one, knit two together, knit one, green; knit
eleven, white; knit four green.

_Twentieth row_--slip one, knit two together, knit one, green; pearl
eleven, white; knit three, green.

_Twenty-first, and twenty-second rows_--green--decreasing at the
beginning of each row.

_Twenty-third row_--slip one, knit two together, knit one, green; knit
seven, white; knit four, green.

_Twenty-fourth row_--slip one, knit two together, knit one, green; pearl
seven, white; knit three, green.

_Twenty-fifth, and twenty-sixth rows_--green,--decreasing, as before.

_Twenty-seventh row_--slip one, knit two together, knit one, green; knit
three, white; knit fou