28. CARD-BASKET. (CROCHET.)
Materials—Shaded green, shaded amber, shaded geranium-colour, Berlin wool; two skeins of blue, two of green, Berlin wool, and two yards of wire, will also be required.
With shaded green make a chain of nine stitches; unite and work ten rounds in close double crochet, increasing in every stitch in the first round, in every alternate in the second, and in the same stitch in each of the succeeding rounds.—
11th round. Work along stitch in each stitch, missing every ninth stitch.—
12th round. 3 long, 3 chain, miss 2.—
13th round (with amber). 3 long worked in the 3 chain of last round, 4 chain; repeat.—
14th round. Close double crochet.—
15th round (with shaded green). 3 long worked in one stitch, 1 chain, miss 3; repeat.—