GENTLEMAN’S RIFLE CRAVAT.
NETTING. [No. 3].
Materials—1 skein each of Fawn and Scarlet, or Mauve and Black, Andalusian Wool; steel netting needle; a mesh No. 10, one No. 15, and a flat mesh one third of an inch wide.
Fill the needle with fawn or mauve wool, use No. 10 mesh, and commence by netting 140 stitches for the first row, and work 24 rows plain netting, increasing a stitch at the beginning of each row, by netting two stitches in the 1st stitch of each; then net 24 rows, netting 2 stitches together at the beginning of each row to decrease it.
The Border—Run a string at one end of the work, about an inch from the slanting edge, so as to work on the selvedge.
1st row—Fill the needle with scarlet or black wool, and commence in the 10th stitch of the last row, counting from the end; then, with No. 10 mesh net these 10 stitches, then 12 stitches on the slanting side of the edge, 12 stitches on the other side, and 10 stitches on the 1st row; turn back.
2nd row—Flat mesh. Net 5 stitches in every other stitch of the 1st scarlet row.
3rd row—No. 15 mesh. Net 4 stitches, and, with the point of the needle, draw the next long stitch through the one missed of the 1st row, and net it. Repeat to the end and fasten off. Turn, and work the border to the other end the same. Join the 1st fawn row to the last to make it round, and with the scarlet wool embroider the Pattern at the end, as in the Section.
CRAVAT—SECTION OF EMBROIDERY PATTERN.