Table Runner by Nazanin S. Fard

Table Runner

Knitting
January 2002
Thread ?
8 stitches = 1 inch
in Stockinette st
US 1 - 2.25 mm
800 yards (732 m)
About 22" wide x 42" long, after blocking
English

Materials:

  • 800 yds Aunt Lydia’s Special Value Art. 151 White #201 by Coats & Clark or size 10 crochet cotton thread
  • Rustproof straight pins
  • Blocking board
  • Stiffen Stuff Fabric Stiffening spray by Beacon or spray starch
  • 1 dark-color and 39 light-color ring-type stitch markers
  • Size 7 steel crochet hook
  • Size 1 knitting needles (or size needed to obtain gauge): Straight single-point and 29” long circular (or longer)

Runner is worked back-and-forth (flat) end-to-end (403 rows) then sts picked up around the entire outside and worked in rounds (33 rounds) and finished with crocheted bind-off edge.