3rd.—Dc. throughout.
4th.—A row of eyelet-holes, thus—8 ch., close in a round in the second ch.; work 3 dc. in the round thus made, drop the loop on the needle, insert the needle in both sides of 5th dc. of last row, counting from the top of the row, pick up the dropped loop, finish a stitch of dc., work three more crochet in ch. in the round; repeat from the beginning of the row, joining in every fifth stitch.
5th.—(The second side of the eyelet-holes)—7 dc. in each eyelet-hole, 1 ch. between every 2.
6th.—4 ch., dc. in 4th on the 2nd side of the first eyelet-hole; repeat.
7th.—dc.
8th.—1 tc., 1 ch., miss 1; repeat.
9th.—dc.
This insertion is remarkably strong, and very pretty, made of silk, for trimming dresses, &c.
ELEMENTARY INSTRUCTIONS IN EMBROIDERY.
Undoubtedly the most artistic style of needlework is that termed Embroidery; not the canvas embroidery of which I treated in Part II. of this work but the yet higher kind of needlework-painting, which aims at producing really pictorial effect, without the mechanical assistance which canvass gives in counting stitches and determining shades.