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There is another st.i.tch called the TREBLE VANd.y.k.e OPEN CROCHET, which is done by three long st.i.tches, but put through the same loop.

A PRETTY NECK TIE, OF TREBLE OPEN CROCHET, AND TWO COLOURS IN DOUBLE BERLIN.

Cast on one hundred and forty loops, and do one row of each colour; three of white and five of coloured will make it wide enough; finish with a chenille ta.s.sel at each end.

A NEW SOFA PILLOW, IN TREBLE OPEN CROCHET.

Choose nine shades of double Berlin wool. Cast on eighty loops, and commence with the darkest shade; one row of each colour to the lightest, and the same to the darkest. You may do them in shaded wool, with white between: make it about three complete stripes or half-a-yard square; you can crochet both sides, or have silk at the back.

A CARPET BAG.

This is done in the plain double crochet, also in plain double Berlin wool. Cast on sixty loops, and choose a pretty crochet pattern for the border on each side--say a narrow border of green leaves, perhaps ten or twelve st.i.tches wide, on a scarlet ground, the centre a black ground, with a diamond arabesque pattern, in bright golds, scarlets, greens, and blues; to be about half-a-yard wide altogether, with the border on the other side; you can vary the other part of the bag at pleasure. They are made up with patent leather sides and bottom, with steel at the top. In working patterns, be particular to pa.s.s the whole between the needle and the wool you are working with.

NECK REST, OR CUs.h.i.+ON, FOR THE BACK OF A CHAIR.

These are very comfortable for an invalid, they are generally done in shaded wool, and six colours, say scarlet, green, lilac, orange, blue and drab. Cast on ninety loops, and eight rows of each colour; this is done in the plain double crochet, and when you cast on the loops for the foundation, join the ends, and work round, they are finished with velvet ends, and two pieces of cord round each piece of velvet; black looks better than coloured.

A BRIOCHE, OR TURKISH CUs.h.i.+ON.

Cast on thirty loops with black wool, crochet four rows all round, increasing one st.i.tch at the end; then take a skein of shaded double Berlin, and commence one st.i.tch below the point of the black; work round to the top of the other side, then commence four loops below, and work till within four of the other side, and so on for eight rows, leaving three less each time; twelve pieces are required done in this manner; all different colours are prettier, or at least six, and repeat them once when you have finished, then crochet them all together and six rows completely round the bottom; you will find you have a s.p.a.ce in the middle; crochet enough rows to fill this up, decreasing every three loops; make a round cus.h.i.+on, and cover it with your crochet: put a Brioche mount in the centre.

A VERY ELEGANT BAG, IN FRENCH BLUE SILK, AND STEEL BEADS.

Commence by casting on three hundred loops, and crochet six plain rows in black, then thread your beads on the blue, and crochet a piece, which is done by making the wrong side of crochet the right; when you are putting on the beads, you must put your needle through the loop, pa.s.s a bead up close to the st.i.tch, and finish it, and so on, until the piece is completed; then twelve rows plain, in blue, and six black; the seventh and eighth are done in the plain open crochet. To pa.s.s the cord through, you ought to choose a pattern from forty to fifty rows deep.

You may also do round bags, commencing with three st.i.tches, and increasing one in every other, for the first six rounds, and one in every three, for the next twelve, and so on until the bottom is large enough; then as many rounds as you require for the size of the bag; they are pretty in stripes of different colours, with beads or patterns of another colour, upon every alternate stripe.

ORIGINAL PATTERN OF A CROCHET COLLAR.

Cast on one hundred and forty loops, crochet one plain row, then one row of plain open crochet in every loop, one row of the open Vand.y.k.e treble crochet; the following of close crochet, if done correctly, will form a leaf. _First_--work along st.i.tch in every loop. _Second_--work three long st.i.tches into three loops, make four chain st.i.tches, miss two loops of the foundation, work a st.i.tch of double plain crochet into the next, make four chain st.i.tches, miss two of the foundation, and repeat. _Third row_--work three long st.i.tches over the three in the last row, make five chain st.i.tches, work a st.i.tch of double crochet over the one in the last row, make five chain st.i.tches, and repeat. _Fourth round_--the same as the third. _Fifth row_--work five st.i.tches of double crochet, beginning on the last chain st.i.tches; before the three long st.i.tches in last row, make eight chain st.i.tches, and repeat one row quite round of the single open crochet; in every loop at the corners of the collar, you must increase two st.i.tches at each end row. To commence the border, or edge of the collar, which of course is carried round as the preceding row--_First row_--make a long st.i.tch, make one chain st.i.tch, work another long st.i.tch in the same loop, make three chain st.i.tches, miss two of the foundation, and repeat. _Second row_--work a long st.i.tch into the one chain st.i.tch in last row, make one chain st.i.tch, work another long st.i.tch into the same place, make two chain st.i.tches, and repeat.

_Third row_--the same as the second. _Fourth row_--work a long st.i.tch into the one chain st.i.tch of the last row, make six chain st.i.tches, and repeat: these collars may be worked in many other patterns, some of which are to be found in a book called Crochet Collars. No. 14, or 16, Boar's-head cotton, and a small steel needle is required.

A PLAIN PURSE.

Cast on seventy or eighty loops, and crochet six rows in double open crochet; it is prettier in two colours, say French blue, and Ponceau, seven stripes are wide enough; they look well with one end square, and a fringe of beads at the bottom.

A MOUCHOIR CASE, IN TREBLE VANd.y.k.e CROCHET.

Choose any pretty shades, or shaded double Berlin, with rather a small sized hook; cast on one hundred loops, and crochet if in shades, one row of each colour, about thirty rows is required to make it wide enough; they are joined so as to leave it open down the centre, and lined with silk or satin; you will find them better with some scent in between the lining: they are to be fastened with a pretty b.u.t.ton, or ribbon.

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