Silk Purses

Ingredients

• A pair of No. 18 needles
• three skeins of cardinal
• two of old gold purse silk

Method

1. 1

   Cast on one hundred and fifty-six stitches with cardinal; knit eighteen rows plain.

2. 2

   Now take good silk, put thread over, knit two together, repeat throughout the row; 20th row knit plain.

3. 3

   Knit nine rows in this manner, then repeat the cardinal stripe.

4. 4

   Alternate cardinal and gold stripes until the purse measures four and a half inches through the middle.

5. 5

   Draw the ends up tightly, sew the sides together, leaving a slit in the center for money, and finish with steel bead tassel at each end, and gilt rings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The household (of the Detroit free press) (1886) by Goff, May Perrin,, page 197. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

SILK PURSES. Materials required : A pair of No. 18 needles, three skeins of cardi- nal and two of old gold purse silk

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.