HOW TO MAKE PICOT EDGING
Use a piece of rather heavy cord to practice making picot (pēkō) edge.
1. Make a chain of 15 stitches.
2. Turn and make 14 single crochets. Make 1 chain stitch.
3. Turn, and putting hook under two threads, make 2 single crochets.
4. Make 3 chain stitches.
5. Now, pointing the hook toward the left thumb, put it through the top loop of the single crochet last made (where the chain was started), and then put it through the lower front loop of the single crochet last made. (See picture, [page 256].)
6. Wrap and draw thread (a slip stitch) through all three loops and on needle. This forms a picot.
7. Make 2 single crochets, and make another picot. Continue in this way across the row. Now you are ready to join the sides of the purse together.
8. Hold both sides together with the joinings touching. Put the crochet hook through the space between the first 2 stitches on each side. Make 1 single crochet. Chain 3 and fasten last chain stitch to single crochet just made with slip stitch as in Nos. 5 and 6. This makes a picot.
9. Continue to make picot edge, leaving 15 double crochets without the picot edge—to form an opening.
To Make the Flap:
(See picture on [page 255])
1. Chain 3.
2. Put 2 double crochet in each space.
3. Chain 3 to turn. Skip 3 double crochets and put 1 double crochet in each of the 24 stitches. Skip 2 double crochets and put 1 double crochet in the end double crochet.
PICOT EDGING
4. Chain 3 to turn. Skip 3 double crochet.
Make 1 double crochet in each of 18 double crochets in lower row. Skip 2 double crochets and put 1 double crochet in the end double crochet.
5. Chain 3. Skip 3 double crochets. Make 12 double crochets. Skip 2 double crochets. Make 1 double crochet on end.
6. Chain 3. Skip 3 double crochets. Make 7 double crochets. Skip 2 double crochets. Make 1 double crochet on end.
7. Chain 3. Skip 2 double crochets. Make 3 double crochets. Skip 2 double crochets. Make 1 double crochet on end.
Break off and fasten cotton.
8. Put picot edge around the flap in the same way as you did around the purse. Fasten thread.
Fold flap over into place.
BACK OF PURSE
To Make the Strings:
1. Holding the back of the purse toward you, fasten the cotton into the fifth space from the joining point of the sides.
2. Chain 25. Catch the twenty-fifth chain stitch into the bone ring with a single crochet.
3. Chain 25. Skip 2 spaces on the top of the purse, and fasten the twenty-fifth chain into the third opening with a single crochet.
4. Make 9 strings of chain stitches, fastening them at the ends as explained.
5. Cover the ring with single crochet.
6. Make 25 chain stitches, and fasten last chain stitch in the place where the strings were started. Fasten thread.
7. Sew snap fasteners on purse and flap.