SUITABLE FOR THE HALF OF A HANDKERCHIEF CORNER, OR ANY OTHER PURPOSE.
For a handkerchief, I should recommend the fashionable mixture of scarlet and white embroidery cotton, No. 80. The large leaves may be worked merely in outline, being button-hole stitched in one color, whilst the veinings are done in another. The specks on the large leaf are small French knots, which I have described in the “Elementary Instructions,” in this number. The fibres and tendrils are run, and sewed over with the greatest nicety. The broad veinings of the upper and lower leaf would be improved by being very delicately worked in small eyelet-holes, made with a coarse needle rather than a stiletto.
SQUARE D’OYLEY IN CROCHET.
[Fig. 8.]
The materials suitable for Table D’oyleys will be Cotton, No. 24 or 30, and crochet hook, No. 20. The D’oyley is to be worked from the Engraving, and afterwards finished with a narrow crochet edging, which will be found at the end of this book. To increase or diminish the size of D’oyleys, use cotton proportionably coarser or finer.
DEEP LACE IN CROCHET.
[Fig. 9.]
Materials.—Cotton, No. 40. Crochet hook, No. 22.
Make a chain the requisite length.
1st.—+ 7 ch., miss 5, sc. on 6th +. Repeat.
2nd.—Sc. on centre of 7 ch., 7 ch. Repeat.
3rd to 7th rows. Like the 2nd.
They may all be worked backwards and forwards.
8th.—+ sc. on centre of 7 ch., 5 ch., +. Repeat.
9th.—✕ sc. on centre of 5, ✕ 3 ch., miss 2, sc. on 3rd ch., miss 1, sc. on 2nd, ✕. Repeat.
10th.—Sc. on the beginning of the ch., (a.) + 3 ch., miss 2, sc. on 3rd, + twice, 6 ch., slip on same stitch, 6 ch., slip on same stitch, (a.) Repeat.
11th.—Sc. on centre of 6 ch., 6 ch., sc. in centre of next 6 ch., 5 ch., sc. on centre of 3 ch., 5 ch., sc. on centre of next 3 ch. Repeat.
12th.—✕ 3 tc. under 6 ch., 3 tc. under next 6 ch., 12 ch., ✕. Repeat.
13th.—+ 6 dc. on 6 tc., * 3 ch., sc. in 3rd ch., * 4 times, +. Then repeat from the beginning.
14th.—✕ 6 dc. in 6 of last row, * 5 ch., sc. under 3 ch., * 5 times, ✕. Then repeat from the beginning.
15th.—✕ 6 dc. into the last 6, * 6 ch., sc. under 5 ch. of last row, * 4 times, ✕. Repeat to the end, and fasten off.
COLLAR IN TATTING OR FRIVOLITE
[Fig. 10.]
Materials.—Cotton, No. 3; Italian net.
I may observe, en passant, that this cotton is the only one which has been manufactured expressly for Tatting, and is really suited for that work.
Work the ovals and loops as seen in the Engraving, leaving threads wherever they appear to be required; draw the pattern on colored paper, from the engraving; lay the net on, and tack the various parts of them in their places, according to the design; sew over the threads, centres, &c., with the same cotton, and cut out the net; fill in the centre of each flower with a rosette of English Point (see Part III.), worked in Evans’s Mecklenburgh, 100; the other open parts might also very effectively be filled in like manner. A muslin band must be sewed round the neck.
ANOTHER COLLAR IN FRIVOLITE.
[Fig. 11.]
Materials.—Tatting cotton, No. 3. Make 13 large trefoils without the pearl edge, and 14 smaller ones, leaving the length of thread shown in the engraving between every two.
Make also 75 ovals with pearl edge, and two larger ones for the corners.
Make up the collar like the last, sewing over all the threads closely in a button-hole stitch.