8th row—in red: 1 plain on each stitch of the preceding row.
9th row—in red and on the wrong side: 1 plain on each stitch of the preceding row.
10th and 11th rows—in red: and both on the right side, 2 rows of plain stitches.
12th row—in white: 5 chain, miss 3, 1 plain on the 4th stitch.
13th row—in dark blue and similar to the 12th.
14th row—in white: * 1 plain on the 5th stitch of the blue row; 10 chain, drop the loop, lay the chain stitches from left to right, put the needle into the 3rd chain stitch, counting from the beginning, take up the loop and draw it through the 3rd chain stitch, 2 chain and repeat from *.
15th row—in white: 1 plain on the picot formed by the chain stitches; 5 chain, 1 plain.
Into this last row you draw clusters of lengths of red cotton to form the fringe, and knot them together with blue, or if you prefer it, you may finish off the coverlet with a hairpin fringe.
Counterpane composed of squares and olive shaped figures (fig. [480]).—There are many who shrink from undertaking a large piece of work because it becomes inconvenient to handle and carry about. The counterpane here represented has the advantage of being made up of a number of quite little pieces, which are worked separately and joined together afterwards.
