For working eyelet-holes in Crochet, I refer my readers to the instructions for the Anti-Macassar, in Part V. of this work.
COLLAR IN FRIVOLITE.
[Fig. 6.]
Materials.—Tatting-cotton, No. 3; shuttle and pin.
Make 22 trefoils thus: 18 double stitches for each loop, which must be drawn up quite tightly; three of these form a trefoil.
Make 22 trefoils, of 15 double stitches, in the same manner for the next row; and then a similar set of 12, 9, and 6 double stitches in each loop. Sew the trefoil of a collar of fancy net; put on 2 rows of tatted purled edging, as indicated in the Engraving, finish last line of Trefoils with a tatted round, and sew a muslin band round the neck.
FISH CLOTH.
[Fig. 7.]
Materials.—Cotton of the following colors: two reels white, two green, one dark blue, one light blue, one black, one lemon color. The colors will be indicated throughout by their respective initials. The cotton should be Nos. 10 or 12, and a very small quantity of Evans’s boar’s-head, No. 40; hooks, Nos. 10 and 20; eagle card-board gauge.
Begin by making the lemon slices thus:—with cotton, No. 40; hook, No. 20, make 1 chain of 12; close it into a loop, and work it all round in dc., taking the stitches under the chain. Do this four times, when all the pips will be made. With the yellow cotton, work a chain, connecting all these from point to point, in a circle. Work a round of white in the yellow, with two tc. stitches in every chain. Then a round of tc. in yellow on the white, with two stitches in every alternate one. This completes one lemon slice. Four of them must be made and sewed on the corners of the fish cloth after it is completed. The pips only are to be done with a fine needle and fine cotton.
With the coarse white cotton, and hook, No. 10, make a chain of 116; work eight rows in open square crochet.
9th.—17 os. in white, 1 dc. in dark blue, 3 dc. in light blue, 2 ch. in white, 2 dc. light blue, 18 open squares in white. Observe that in future rows the colors will be indicated by their respective initials.