Knitting, Crochet, and Netting, with Twelve Illustrations Part 19

Sole for Shoes.

_6 Thread Black Fleecy._

_Make a chain of 8 st.i.tches._

1st row--1 row plain. This is not repeated.

2nd row--Take both sides of the chain on the needle and work according to shape, working it backwards and forwards.

Crochet Purse.

_2nd size Netting Silk, 2 colours. No. 6 steel beads. Make a chain of 120 st.i.tches._

1st row--1 treble, 1 chain, pa.s.s a bead down, miss 1; work 2 rows of each colour for 6 inches.

Shamrock Purse.

_Pattern No. 8._

_In close crochet, fine silk; colors, green, violet, and white; steel and gold beads, No. 5. Make a chain of 150 st.i.tches with white; thread the steel beads upon the white._

Work 3 rows the same as in last receipt, then with green and gold beads, work the pattern; then 3 rows of white, with steel beads, as before, and with violet and gold beads, work the pattern again.

Three stripes of each color form the purse.

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Honeycomb Edging.

_Make a chain of 480 st.i.tches for each yard. Boar's head cotton No. 24._

1st row--10 chain, miss 5 (1 plain, 3 chain, miss 1, 4 times), 1 plain.

2nd row--1 treble, 1 chain in the 3 chain of the row before; repeat 6 times, 1 chain (1 plain, 3 chain, miss 4, 3 times), 1 plain, 1 chain.

3rd row--1 treble, 1 chain, miss 1, 7 times, 1 chain (1 plain, 1 chain, miss 4, twice), 1 plain, 1 chain.

4th row--1 plain and 3 treble in every treble st.i.tch of the last row; then 1 chain, 1 plain, 3 chain, 1 plain, 1 chain.

Anti-Maca.s.sar.

_Boar's head cotton No. 10, or knitting cotton No. 12. Make a chain of 145 st.i.tches. Work backwards and forwards._

1st row--4 treble, 2 chain, miss 2, 1 treble, 2 chain, miss 2, 3 treble; at the end, work 1 treble, 2 chain, beside the pattern.

2nd row--3 treble, 2 chain, miss 2, 1 treble, 1 chain, miss 1, 1 treble, 2 chain, miss 2, 2 treble.

3rd row--2 treble, 2 chain, miss 2, 1 treble, 1 chain, miss 1, 1 treble, 1 chain, miss 1, 1 treble, 2 chain, miss 2, 1 treble.

4th row--1 treble, 2 chain, miss 2, (1 treble, 1 chain, miss 1, 3 times,) 1 treble, 2 chain, miss 2.

5th row--Same as 3rd.

6th row--Same as 2nd.

7th row--Same as 1st.

Work 24 inches. Finish with double scollop edging.

Travelling Bag.

_Pattern No. 7._

_In double Berlin wool, 5 shades of scarlet, 4 shades of stone, 4 shades of couleur de bois, light green, black, white, and shaded blue. Make a chain of 150 st.i.tches._

1st row--Black and darkest bois, 2 st.i.tches of each.

2nd row--2nd shade and black.

3rd row--3rd shade, plain.

4th row--4th shade and green, 21 st.i.tches of green, and 3 of bois, lightest shade.

5th row--White and 1st shade of scarlet, 21 white, and 3 scarlet.

6th row--2nd shade of scarlet, 1st shade of stone; 3 stone, 15 scarlet, 3 stone, 3 scarlet.

7th row--2nd shade of stone, 3rd shade of scarlet; same as 6th row.

8th row--3rd shade of stone, 4th shade of scarlet; same as 7th row.

9th row--4th shade of stone, 5th shade of scarlet.

10th row--Same as 9th.

Repeat the colors back again, ending with a plain row of the darkest couleur de bois, and the 2 rows of 2 st.i.tches; then 6 rows of shaded blue; work until there are 18 inches.

Finish with a clasp.

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Table Cover.