Looped Knitting

Looped Knit Stitch


knitted spa cloth

I have seen this stitch used as an accent of a hood.  It looks very furry and cozy next to the face for a cape.  It has also been used inside mittens or slippers for extra warmth.  I used it with cotton to make face clothes. 

As you can see there are no specifics, but then this is the pattern for the stitch only. 

The picture to the right is an exhibit that my friend (http://knitnmore.blogspot.com/) prepared for an exhibit at the Abraham Lincoln Libraty State Historical Library a couple of years ago.  The hood was made using the directions in a Peterson's magazine and uses the looped stsitch to embelish the hood.  The picture also shows a misers purse in the lower left hand corner.

335.--Looped Knitting.

Materials: 4-thread fleecy wool; 2 wooden knitting-needles;

Cast on a sufficient number of stitches, and knit the 1st row plain.

2nd Row--Slip the 1st stitch; insert the needle into the next stitch, and throw the cotton forward as if you were going to knit the stitch; place the mesh behind the needle in the right hand, and turn the wool which is on this needle upwards, bring it back again on the needle so that it is wound once round the mesh, and twice round the needle. Then only the double stitch through the second stitch, knit it, and insert the needle into the next stitch, and repeat what has been explained. Knit the last stitch without a loop.

3rd Row--Before drawing out the mesh, turn the work and knit one [351] plain row. Every double stitch is knitted as one stitch, so as to attain the same number of stitches as in the 1st row.

4th Row--Like the 2nd row. Repeat these rows as often as required.

 

This knitting is chiefly used for borders of mats.