A Sofa Pillow, or Table Cover.
This is merely given as the first and easiest pattern in crochet, for the purpose of teaching the stitch.
A good-sized ivory or steel crochet needle, with six-thread fleecy, will be required. Instead of working the rows backwards and forwards, as before described, begin each row separately at the same end. When the last stitch of each row is finished, draw the wool through, and cut it off, leaving an end of two or three inches. It is impossible to determine the exact number of stitches,—that must depend on the article, and its required size; but with this description of wool, half a yard in length will generally be found to number about sixty-five stitches, and a calculation may accordingly be made.
First stripe—one row black; one row white; one row black.
Second stripe—one row dark scarlet; one bright scarlet; one light scarlet;—reverse the same, to form a shaded stripe.
Third stripe—the same as the first.
Fourth stripe—the same as the second, but in shades of blue.
These stripes are to be repeated alternately.