A Square Border Pattern.
The annexed pattern is adapted for any square requiring a border, such as a table cover, mat, quilt, sofa cushion, couvre-pied, etc. To render it easy, the centre may be worked in the same colours as the border, introducing any spot, sprig, or other small pattern,—the same colours being carried through the whole, or slipped at the back. If, however, the plan of introducing the colour only in the pattern be understood, it may here be employed with advantage.
No. 34.
The ground of the pattern might be in a self colour,—say white, with the pattern in scarlet; or, the ground might be in five shades of scarlet, the pattern being crocheted in emerald green, blue, white, or black, according to taste, or the purpose for which the work was designed. The whole of the pattern might also be worked in chiné or shaded wool.
The kind of wool to be used must be adapted to the purpose for which the work is required; thus,—for a quilt or couvre-pied, six-thread fleecy—for a mat, eight thread common fleecy;—for a table mat, German wool; for a baby’s quilt, or a sofa pillow, eight thread zephyr fleecy.
No. 35.
For the centre of the design, either the preceding sprig pattern, or the patterns Nos. 20 or 39, may be taken. If the ground be worked in shades, five shades of any colour, neither too distinct, nor too dark, should be selected.
This border is well adapted for ribbed or raised crochet, as described at [page 57].