[Fig. 3.]
White embroidery cotton, No. 80. The work of these letters should be very delicately done, the eyelet-holes made with a coarse needle; the point of a stiletto would make them too large. These letters are suitable for handkerchiefs.
KNITTED BAG.
[Fig 4.]
Materials.—7 shades of pink, blue, or green German wool, 2 yards of silk cord to match, and 10 silver rings; bone needles, No. 8. Cast on 90 stitches with the darkest shade.
1st.—Slip 1, ✕ make 1, knit 2 together, knit 2 together, make 1, knit 1, ✕; repeat to the end.
2nd row.—Plain knitting. Do two rows in every shade progressively, until you come to the lightest, when you will knit four, then two of every shade back to the darkest, with which you will fasten off. Sew up the side.
For the foundation use four needles, No. 20. Pick up 30 stitches on each of three needles, and knit 3 plain rounds with the darkest shade but one.
4th round.—Make 1, k. 2 t., repeat.
5th.—(With the next lightest shade, continuing to change the wool every fourth round,) knit 12, knit 2 t., repeat.
6th.—Knit 11, knit 2 t., repeat.
7th.—Knit 10, knit 2 t., repeat.
8th.—Plain knitting.
9th.—Make 1, knit 2 t., repeat.
10th.—Knit 2 t., k. 9, repeat.
11th.—Knit 2 t., k. 8, repeat.
12th.—Knit 2 t., k. 7, repeat.
13th.—Plain knitting.
14th.—Make 1, k. 2 t., repeat.
15th.—K. 8, k. 2 t., repeat.
16th.—K. 7, k. 2 t., repeat.
17th.—K. 6, k. 2 t., repeat.
18th to 22nd.—Like the last 5.
23rd.—Plain knitting.
24th.—M. 1, k. 2 t., repeat.
25th.—K. 2 t., k. 5, repeat.
26th.—K. 2 t., k. 4, repeat.
27th.—K. 2 t., k. 3, repeat.
Take up the remaining stitches and sew up the centre, on the wrong side, with an embroidery needle.
LACET BAG.
[Fig. 5.]
This bag is made, as its name implies, of Braid, (that is, Lacet); it is done very much in the manner of point lace.
Draw the pattern on colored paper, of the proper dimensions for the bag; paste a calico lining on the wrong side of the paper, and with colored silk braid go over all the black lines, fastening the ends of braid very neatly and securely to each other. Then all the double lines seen are to be worked in Venetian bars, and the single ones in Sorrento bars, with sewing-silk exactly the color of the braid. Work the Venetian bars on three or four threads, and run the needle in the braid from one to the next.
When complete, it must be removed from the paper, and another side done. The bag must then be made of silk that will harmonize well with the color of the braid, as green with violet, orange gold color, with maroon or purple, and so on. A steel clasp and tassels complete this elegant bag.
D’OYLEY IN SQUARE CROCHET.
[Fig. 6.]
For full directions for Square Crochet, see Part I. this work.
Materials.—Cotton, No. 36, with crochet hook, No. 22, eagle card-board gauge, will make this D’oyley a proper size for dessert.
For other purposes, coarser or finer materials may be used. A pretty edging should be worked all round it. One of the most suitable is that termed the Ivy-leaf Edging, in the “Home Circle,” No. 101, Vol. IV., or Fig. 8, on the frontispiece of this number, will do as well. I may here give a hint for which, doubtless, many of my readers will thank me. All the designs given for D’oyleys and Anti-Macassars in square crochet may be equally well worked in square netting, the pattern being darned in afterwards. The material used for Anti-Macassars should be good and strong knitting cotton, Evans’s Nos. 8 or 12; but D’oyleys look best done in Evans’s Mechlenburgh thread, Nos. 7 or 8, the design being darned in Mecklenburgh, No. 12.
Square Netting is done in the following manner:
Begin with one stitch only, and net backwards and forwards, increasing one stitch at the end of every row until as many squares are made as may be required, reckoning from the point up one side. Then decrease, in the same manner, until only one stitch is left. When stretched out, this forms a perfect square, every stitch being true. Should an oblong piece be required, (as for a Bread-basket D’oyley,) work to the widest part as already directed, then continue to increase at one side, leaving a stitch at the other, until as much more is done as may be necessary for the entire length. Finish as in the perfect square. Crests and coats of arms are particularly suitable for working in square netting.