This pretty little edging is from a 1958 knitting magazine, and it looks like it celebrates the eternally popular Maraschino Cherry, a sugar-pickled cherry used as a garnish, with the leaves and any nutrition long departed. The perfect edging to use on your next lownecked cocktail sweater. The pattern calls for size 1 (US) needles. Go Here to see Donna Hrynkiw's knitted swatch of this pattern.

Cast on 11 stitches, and begin...

1st Row: K 11 sts.

2nd Row, and all even Rows: K2, Purl across.

3rd Row: (K1, O) twice; slip1, K1, p.s.s.o; K4, O, K2 tog., K1 - 12 sts, counting each O as
1 st.

5th Row: K1, (O, in the next st. K1, O, and K1) 3 times, O; slip1, K1, p.s.s.o.; K3, O, K2 tog., K1 - 21 sts, counting as before.

7th Row: Slip 1, K1, p.s.s.o.; O, K11, O, K1,; slip 1, K1, p.s.s.o.; K2, O, K2 tog., K1 - 21 sts.

9th Row: Slip 1, K 1, p.s.s.o., O, K1, slip 1st stitch (at point) on right-hand needle back onto left-hand needle, pass the following 10 stitches on left hand needle (one at a time) over this stitch and off left-hand needle, then slip the stitch back on right-hand needle; O, K2; slip1, K1, p.s.s.o.; k1, O, K2 tog., K1 - 11 sts.

11th Row: K1, O, K2 tog. O, K3; slip 1, K1, p.s.s.o.; O. K2 tog, K1 - 11 sts.


Repeat 2nd to 11th rows for pattern.