Blütenmuster edging by Gertrud Villforth

Blütenmuster edging

Knitting
DMC tatting thread
Thread ?
US 00 - 1.75 mm
English German

Additional source: This edging pattern is also found in Knitted Lace II (Kunst-Stricken II), photo page 35, chart page 63. On the facing page (page 34) is an insertion version, chart on page 61. An illustration of how to make the WM (winding stitch) appears on page 11, fig. 14.

Designer: Gertrud (née Woywod) Villforth (Her name is misspelled “Billforth” in the Lacis book: Villforth is the correct spelling.)

From The Knitted Lace Patterns of Christine Duchrow, Vol III:

Cast on 43 stitches.

Increase on purl rows where necessary using a YO (or two) at the beginning of the wrong side row.

Decrease where necessary by working a p2tog (or p3tog) at the beginning of the wrong side row.

Key

~ Slip the stitch
a Slip 1, knit 1, pass the slipped stitch over
/ Yarnover
// Double yarnover
3 Slip 1, knit 2 together, pass the slipped stitch over
g Knit 2 together
r Knit
rv Knit through the back loop (twisted knit stitch)
WM Slip the indicated stitches to a cable needle and wrap the thread tightly around them a number of times, then slide the wrapped stitches onto the right needle. Mary Thomas calls this “Clustering Tie Stitch” in an illustration on page 230 of Mary Thomas’s Book of Knitting Patterns.