Border Pattern for a Square.
No. 17.
This pattern may be employed for a tidy, sofa pillow, mat, carpet, cradle, or bed quilt, carriage wrapper, d’oyley, and a variety of other purposes, where a border on each side may be required. It may be worked either in plain double crochet, or in raised crochet. A different material, together with a different sized needle, are the only requisites to adapt it to any of the above purposes. Thus,—
For a sofa pillow, eight-thread zephyr fleecy; for a tidy, three-thread fleecy; for a window mat, eight-thread common fleecy; for a flower mat, German or English wool; for a cradle quilt, eight-thread zephyr fleecy; for a bed quilt, six-thread fleecy; for a d’oyley, rather fine knitting cotton. The size of the article, however, must in the first instance be determined, and the number of stitches counted, so as to bring in the pattern as suited to that size. The simplest colouring will be the most effective,—a plain ground, with the pattern in any bright colour. Designs of this description, which require calculation and constant counting, may be adopted as amusing, but not as very easy work.