Gold Butterfly Stole by Virginia Woods Bellamy

Gold Butterfly Stole

Knitting
January 1952
Lace ?
12 stitches and 24 rows = 4 inches
in garter stitch
US 11 - 8.0 mm
Easily Adaptable to Any Size
English

The single wing is the simplest form of bias knitting. On a given number of stitches along a cast-on (flat) edge, one stitch is lost at the beginning and returned at the end of every other row. The same number of stitches is knitted, therefore, on every return row. But the rising edges of the work move upwards on a slant of two parallel lines-one being the increased and one the decreased edge of what is called bias knitting.

Yarn: A; fine, 2-ply twist; as photographed, pale gold.

Needles: number 12

Gauge: 3 stitches to one inch

Chart: one box= 6; 18 boxes on CO edge; 6 x 18 = 108 stitches.
one box= 6; 13 boxes on rising edges; 6 x 13 = 78 ridges.