SUITABLE FOR THE HALF OF A HANDKERCHIEF CORNER, OR ANY OTHER PURPOSE.
For a handkerchief, I should recommend the fashionable mixture of scarlet and white embroidery cotton, No. 80. The large leaves may be worked merely in outline, being button-hole stitched in one color, whilst the veinings are done in another. The specks on the large leaf are small French knots, which I have described in the “Elementary Instructions,” in this number. The fibres and tendrils are run, and sewed over with the greatest nicety. The broad veinings of the upper and lower leaf would be improved by being very delicately worked in small eyelet-holes, made with a coarse needle rather than a stiletto.
SQUARE D’OYLEY IN CROCHET.
[Fig. 8.]
The materials suitable for Table D’oyleys will be Cotton, No. 24 or 30, and crochet hook, No. 20. The D’oyley is to be worked from the Engraving, and afterwards finished with a narrow crochet edging, which will be found at the end of this book. To increase or diminish the size of D’oyleys, use cotton proportionably coarser or finer.
DEEP LACE IN CROCHET.
[Fig. 9.]
Materials.—Cotton, No. 40. Crochet hook, No. 22.
Make a chain the requisite length.
1st.—+ 7 ch., miss 5, sc. on 6th +. Repeat.
2nd.—Sc. on centre of 7 ch., 7 ch. Repeat.
3rd to 7th rows. Like the 2nd.