Sixteenth row—one stitch claret; one blue; ten claret,—increasing on the fourth stitch.—Repeat from the first blue stitch.
Seventeenth and eighteenth rows—claret,—without increasing.
Nineteenth row—claret,—increasing one stitch on every thirty-third. This row should contain one hundred and thirty-six stitches, when the bag will have acquired its full size, and the increasing be finished.
The next three rows are worked in four stitches of gold, and four of claret,—alternately. Then, four plain rows, viz.—one of gold; one of black; one of white; and one of gold;—followed by one row of blue, and one row of white, in double open crochet; then, one row of gold, one row of black, and one row of gold, in plain crochet. Repeat the two rows of double open crochet,—the first in blue, the second in claret;—also the one row of gold; the one row of black; and the one row of gold. Commence again with the rows of blue and white, in double open crochet.
There should be four divisions of double open crochet, the bag being finished with the black and gold stripe.
An open Crochet Bag in Chenille.
Make a chain of six loops, in fine blue chenille, and unite both ends. Crochet in rows,—to form a round (increasing a sufficient number of stitches in each row to keep the work flat), until fourteen rows are finished. This forms the bottom of the bag.
Commence a vandyke pattern, by making one stitch of gold to every fifth of the coloured ground, in the first row. In the next row three stitches of gold, and three of the ground; in the next, five of the gold, and one of the ground. The two next rows are to be plain—the first of gold, the second of black.
Work two rows of open crochet,—the one in scarlet, the other in blue.
The two rows of black, with one row of gold between, are then to be worked in plain crochet; followed by two rows of open crochet,—the first white, the second blue. Repeat the two rows of black, with the gold between, and the two rows of open crochet,—alternately, to complete the bag.