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StitcheIntermediatePublic domain · 1843

A zigzag line of eyelets: six rows leaning left, six leaning right.

The 1843 handbook only says to "bring the thread forward before the open stitch of the preceding row" to change direction. We wrote the second half as an exact mirror of the first, with ssk instead of k2tog.

Good to know

  • Lovely on a fine wool scarf or a stole.

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Source

My Knitting Book, Miss Lambert, 1843. Project Gutenberg.

What we modernised

  • Second half of the motif rebuilt as a mirror image (the original text is very short).

Chart

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Multiple of 8 stitches · 12 rows

Read the chart from bottom to top. Right-side rows are read from right to left, wrong-side rows from left to right. Each square is one stitch as seen from the right side.

Key
  • Knit on RS, purl on WS
  • Yarn over (yo)
  • k2tog (on WS: p2tog)
  • ssk (on WS: ssp)
Written instructions
  1. Rows 1, 3 and 5 (RS) : *k2tog, k3, yo, k3; repeat from * to end
  2. Rows 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12 (WS) : purl all stitches
  3. Rows 7, 9 and 11 (RS) : *k3, yo, k3, ssk; repeat from * to end