17th round. Plain, decreasing by missing every 16th stitch. Work 1 round with gold, then divide the purse, and work one-half with cerise; work 8 rows, passing down a bead at every stitch, and decreasing a stitch at the beginning and end of each row; work the other half to correspond; sew on to the top, and finish with tassel in the centre of star.
63. ROUND COLLAR. (CROCHET.)
Materials—White, and three shades of scarlet and shaded green Berlin wool; Penelope crochet No. 2.
With white make a chain of 84 stitches; work a row of single open crochet.—
2d row (lightest scarlet). 3 chain, 3 long, miss 2; repeat to the end.—
3d row (second shade of scarlet). 1 long worked in the centre long stitch of previous row, 5 chain; repeat.—
4th row (dark scarlet). 3 long worked above the long, and the last and first stitches of the chain, 4 chain; repeat.—
5th row (green). Commence in the edge stitch of third row. 5 chain, miss 3 *, 5 long, 3 chain, miss 1; repeat from *, and work to the end, which must be finished with 5 chain, 1 plain, worked in the third row.—