BRIDAL PURSE, IN CROCHET.
BRIDAL PURSE, IN CROCHET.
MATERIALS..—Six skeins of white crochet silk, two skeins of ombré; scarlet ditto, in long shades, three skeins of slate-colour, and one of bright scarlet. Two ounces of transparent white beads, rather larger than seed beads, four strings of gold, the same size, and a hank of steel to match. For the garnitures (which must be entirely of bright steel), two rings, a handsome tassel for one end, and a deep fringe for the other. Boulton's tapered indented Crochet Hook, No. 23.
Begin by threading all the white beads on the white silk; half the gold on the ombré; cerise, and the steel on the slate-coloured. What scarlet silk is used in the square end is without beads; the few rows at the other end, of that colour, are threaded with gold, which may be put on afterwards.
The design of the square end consists of a spray of roses and leaves, the former in scarlet ombré; with gold beads intermixed, the latter with slate-silk and steel. The ground is composed wholly of white beads, one being dropped on every stitch; where, therefore, the scarlet and slate silks are worked without beads, they appear to be in intaglio. A scroll of steel beads below the group is intermixed with the white, and the top and bottom of the square end are finished off with vandykes of plain scarlet without beads. At the bottom is an open pattern in scarlet, to which is attached the fringe.
Begin with the plain scarlet silk, with which make a chain of 100 stitches, and close it into a round. Work one round in scarlet, using in the end of white silk.
2nd round: In which you begin to drop on the white beads. X 2 white, 3 scarlet, X 20 times.
3rd: X 3 white, 1 scarlet, 1 white, X 20 times.