Weldon's Fourth Series

28 Articles and 38 Illustrations! They must be making up for the previous lack of illustrations. This variation surprised me so I counted the number of articles including stitch patterns and the number of illustrations and I came up with very different numbers. I got 36 patterns and three of those are stitch patterns. There are only 30 illustrations. This is the first time I've checked their count of patterns but maybe they think only 28 of the patterns are "Useful Articles". That leaves eight that aren't useful. Maybe they aren't counting the stitch patterns? Maybe it's backwards and should be 38 articles and 30 illustrations. That would be closer. I guess we'll just say even Weldon's made mistakes.

The first pattern in this series takes up almost two pages. It's an Outdoor Pelisse for a Young Child that is 24 inches in length. They say, "Every stitch of the working is here given, so that not the slightest difficulty can be experienced." I'm not going to test that. It is worked in tricot, aka Tunisian and the trimming is "looped knitting in imitation of astrachan." According to Wikipedia, astrachan or the alternative astrakhan is "closely-curled black or gray fleece of very young karakul lambs from Astrakhan" (a place in Russia).​

​Here are few more of their useful articles. The Hand-bag is made from macrame twine. The boots are made in white and scarlet fingering yarn and the blanket is done in "fancy tricot" with contrasting colors. They suggest fawn and blue.

There were two things that weren't quite projects but I thought were interesting. One was a watch guard made with purse silk and black beads.  The other was a sleeve holder.

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The obvious thing for me to try is a hat right? There is this Venetian Cap in this edition:

I decided not to make it but if you want to see one completed, Just Vintage Crochet on YouTube made one.

I had a hard time picking something out of this series. Everything was either time consuming, done with fingering weight or was something like an insertion that didn't seem practical.

After paging through this series multiple times I decided that I'm doing a stitch pattern from this series and two more from a previous series.
The one from this series is called Lewis Point. The others are the Rice Stitch and the Beehive Stitch from the second series. Next week we'll see if mine looks as nice as their illustration!