A NETTED OPERA OR USEFUL CAP.
Materials.— Two flat meshes; the small one for the cap to measure, by a string placed round it, five-eighths of an inch, that is, a trifle over half an inch; the wide one, without the string, half an inch wide or rather over. A skein of white Andalusian or white Berlin wool. A very pretty netted cap for morning wear may be made by using steel meshes half the size, and doubling the directions given, using Cotton No. 20.
Make a foundation of 57 stitches, and net a plain row.
In the next row, in the 29th stitch, make an increased stitch by netting another into the same loop, also one into the last stitch of the row.
In the next row increase one in the centre, and one at the end. Continue this till there are two diamonds (4 rows).
In every row, whether tufted or plain, the stitch must be increased in the centre and end of long row.
Tufted row.— Make 2 plain, a tufted stitch thus: net into the next diamond; then put the wool round the mesh and up through the stitch without netting, exactly as if for sewing, only that the needle passes upwards instead of downwards, do this for seven times, consequently there will be seven loops over the mesh, but none of them netted; now press the needle as if for netting, only let it come out, not in the centre of the stitch but on the other side. Net thus the two sides of the stitch together, inclosing the whole of the loops in the loop of the stitch which is being netted into. Now net one plain, then a tuft, then three plain, and in the last make another tufted stitch, and so repeat, increasing as before.
The next row is plain netting.
The next tufted; and so on alternately till there are three rows or tufts in pairs. Now net 30 plain rows, increasing as before. Then a row of tufted, two rows plain, a row of tufts, two rows plain, till there are four rows of tufts; then along the sides and net two plain rows; then one row along the bottom.
For the border wind on the largest mesh 40 times of Andalusian wool or 25 of Berlin wool; with a rug needle, and wool doubled and tied in a knot at the two ends; pass the needle under the tuft of wool; secure the latter by passing the needle through the loop formed by the knot, passing it again under the tuft, and making a button-hole stitch, and the same again; now fasten it into one of the stitches in the outside row of the narrowest side of the netting, or what looks like the neck. Make another ball, fasten it into the 4th stitch, and so repeat along the neck and down the two slanting sides.
References:
ITEM #6998
May, 1864
Godey's Lady's Book
Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Vol LXVIII Page 481
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