It is to be set in a habit-shirt of net or Mull muslin, and two rows of crochet-lace put round the neck.
ANTI-MACASSAR.
[Fig. 8.]
Materials.—Cotton, No. 12. Crochet hook, No. 14. Eagle card-board gauge.
Make a chain of 9. Close in the 3rd for a round, leaving 2 chain. Work under this round 12 dc.
+ Sc. on 1st dc., 5 ch. miss 1, + 6 times.
+ Sc. on 1st stitch of the 1st chain of 5, 3 dc. on three next, sc. on 5th, slip on sc., + 3 times; repeat from the beginning until as many are done as may be required for the length of an Anti-Macassar, without a border. Turn, and work the three loops left in each flower, like the first three, with a single crochet stitch on the chain which connects them. Break off your cotton. 5 ch., dc. under each side of the centre stitch of the second loop, 9 ch., dc. in the same place of the next flower, and continue so to the end, leaving off with 5 chain. Work on this a row of dc., then an open row, thus:—1 tc., 1 ch., miss 1. Repeat.
The next row in dc.
Make another length of flowers, and join them to the last row, thus:—in working the second side of the flowers, join the middle loop to the last row of dc., at the same intervals as the previous row of flowers is united.
Repeat alternately the open hem and the flowers, until the Anti-Macassar is sufficiently wide, finishing with the three rows which form the open hem. Work an open hem at the other side, and at both ends, carrying the dc. all round. Beyond this is a round of small eyelet-holes which are thus worked:—✕, make a chain of 9, close in 7th for a loop, under which work 2 dc.; drop the loop off your hook, take up a loop of the edge of the Anti-Macassar, then the dropped loop and make 3 more dc. under the chain, reckoning as one thread the dropped loop and that of the border, + repeat,—joining such eyelet-hole to every fifth chain of the Anti-Macassar. Work the 2nd side of the eyelet-holes at each corner, make a chain all round connecting it with the eyelet-holes in every fifth stitch. Next round, 1 dc. in the middle loop of the 2nd side of the eyelet-holes, 4 ch., repeat throughout the round with 5 ch. at the corners, dc. all round, working three stitches in one at the corners.
Next round, ✕ 1 tc., 1 ch., miss 1, ✕ all round, not missing any at the corners.