5. Make 1 single crochet in the next space. This makes 1 scallop.
6. Make scallops in this way all around the top.
7. Make 1 single crochet in the top of the first double crochet of first scallop.
8. Chain 3.
9. Draw a loop through each of the first and second stitches of scallops, and take the 3 loops off the needle as one stitch.
10. Repeat Nos. 8 and 9 around the top.
To Make the Runner:
Cut 3 strands of the cotton about 1½ yards long. Lay side by side and twist as in making trimming for Doll’s Crocheted Hat, [page 209].
Make 2 runners in this way, and tie a knot in one end of each.
Run them through runner spaces from opposite sides of bag and tie them in hard knots at the ends.