DEEP BORDER FOR BASSINET QUILT.

MATERIALS..—Brooks' Knitting Cord, Nos. 4 and 6; Crochet-hook, No. 18.

This lace is to be worked round the last eyelet-hole border with No. 6 Brooks' Cotton.

1st round: S.c. round the edge of the last border, with two stitches in every one for two inches on each side of the corners.

2nd: X 1 d.c., 1 ch., miss 1, X all round, but not missing any at the corners.

3rd: Like first, but with 2 in 1 for 3 inches round the corners, at the extreme points of which there will be 3 in 1 three times.

4th: Begin at a corner. X 2 d.c., 1 ch., miss 1, 1 d.c., 1 ch., miss 1, 2 d.c., 9 ch., miss 2, X 4 times. Then continue along the side, missing 6 instead of 2, until you come to within 41 stitches of the next corner, when you will miss 2 only again, and at the point of the corner miss none. All the sides are to be worked alike.

5th: (Begin over the 2nd of the first 2 d.c.) X 2 d.c., 1 ch. (which comes over the 1 d.c.), 2 d.c., 5 ch., 1 d.c. on 5th of 9 ch., 5 ch., X all round.

6th: X 3 d.c. (the second coming over the 1 ch.), 5 ch., 3 d.c. (the second coming over 1 d.c.), 5 ch., X all round.

7th: X 1 d.c. (on the second of the 3 d.c. you began with in last round), 5 ch., miss 4 ch., 2 d.c., 1 ch., miss 1 d.c., 2 d.c., 9 ch., X all round.