A chain of this kind makes a very good substitute for mignardise when that can not be got of the right size and colour for the required purpose.
(4) Trebles.—Trebles are little columns, or bars made of loops or stitches. They can be worked, like all other crochet, either to and fro, or all one way. There are different kinds of trebles; half or short trebles, trebles, double trebles, called also ‘long stitch’, and quadruple and quintuple trebles, called ‘extra long stitch’, connected trebles and crossed trebles.
Half trebles (fig. [415]).—Turn the cotton round the needle from behind, put the needle in between the trebles of the preceding row, or into one edge of a chain stitch; make an over, bring the needle forward again with the thread, make another over and draw the needle through all three loops.
Trebles (figs. [416] and [417]).—Begin, as for the half treble, by turning the thread round the needle, and putting it in under one edge of the stitch beneath, then take up the thread on the needle and bring it through two of the loops, take it up again, and draw it through the two remaining loops.
Fig. 416. Trebles made directly above one another.
In fig. [417], we have trebles made in the same manner as fig. [416], only that instead of putting the needle under one edge of the stitch beneath, you put it under both, and between the trebles of the last row.
