1⅓ yards of narrow white ribbon.
Make a ch of 20 st., take up each ch with a s c.
Turn 19 s c in slipper stitch (slipper stitch is s c taken up on the back thread of the row below). Crochet back and forth in this manner until you have 8 ribs or 16 rows which form the back. Then take up 5 s c and crochet back and forth until you have 9 ribs or 18 rows, which forms the one front. Then count nine stitches for the neck, taking up the remaining 5 sts for the other front and make 9 ribs or 18 rows for the other front. Finish with a border all around of s c taking up the whole stitch, alternating the colours, 1 row blue and 1 white until you have four blue and four white, finish the whole with a blue picot.
Cut the ribbon into six pieces, sew one piece in each of the outer edges to form the armhole and front as illustrated. This jacket can be made for a child by commencing with 45 ch, 25 ribs for back and 25 ribs for fronts.
Jacket ([Figure 243]).
Fig. 243. Jacket in star stitch
Pompadour wool through which a thread of silk runs, was used for making this pretty jacket. Three skeins of the wool are required.
The body of the sacque is of star stitch ([Figure 244]).