SCALLOPS JOINED TOGETHER AT THE TOP (fig. 498). With one shuttle make 4 double, 1 picot, * 8 double, 1 picot, 4 double, close the half ring, 4 double, draw the thread through the picot and repeat from *.

[Ill.u.s.tration: FIG. 498. SCALLOPS JOINED TOGETHER AT THE TOP. MATERIALS: Fil d'Alsace D.M.C Nos. 30 to 70, Cordonnet 6 fils D.M.C Nos. 15 to 40, or Fil a dentelle D.M.C Nos. 25 to 60[A]]

SCALLOPS WITH PICOTS (fig. 499).--Make with one shuttle: 4 double, 1 picot, * 3 double, 1 picot, 2 double, 1 picot, 2 double, 1 picot, 3 double, 1 picot, 4 double, close the ring.

[Ill.u.s.tration: FIG. 499. SCALLOPS WITH PICOTS. MATERIALS: Fil d'Alsace D.M.C in b.a.l.l.s Nos. 30 to 70, ecru or white.[A]]

Leave sufficient length of thread before beginning the next ring, for the rings not to overlap each other = make 4 double, draw the left hand thread through the 5th picot of the preceding ring and repeat from *.

TATTED INSERTION (fig. 500).--Make with one shuttle a ring like the ones in fig. 499, then leaving a length of, from 5 to 10 m/m. of thread, make a second ring = turn the work = leave the same length of thread again, begin a third ring which you join after the 4th double, to the 5th picot of the 1st ring = turn the work after each ring is made, so that all the upper rings represent the right side of the work and all the lower ones the wrong.

[Ill.u.s.tration: FIG. 500. TATTED INSERTION. MATERIALS: Fil d'Alsace D.M.C in b.a.l.l.s Nos. 30 to 70, ecru or white.]

[Ill.u.s.tration: FIG. 501. TATTED INSERTION. MATERIALS: Fil d'Alsace D.M.C Nos. 30 to 70, or Cordonnet 6 fils D.M.C No. 20.]

[Ill.u.s.tration: FIG. 502. EDGING OF TATTING AND CROCHET. MATERIALS--For the tatting: Fil d'Alsace D.M.C in b.a.l.l.s No. 30. For the crochet: Cordonnet 6 fils D.M.C No. 60.]

TATTED INSERTION (fig. 501).--To be worked with two shuttles. Begin with one thread and one shuttle and make a ring, as in figs. 499 and 500; and a second close to it; then pa.s.s the thread over the left hand, take the second shuttle in the right hand and make 6 double on the 2nd thread, after which you again make a ring above and one below with one shuttle only.

EDGING OF TATTING AND CROCHET (fig. 502).--Make with one shuttle: 1 double, 1 picot, 2 double, 1 picot, 2 double, 1 picot, 2 double, 1 picot twice as long as the others, 2 double, 1 picot, 2 double, 1 picot, 2 double, 1 picot, 2 double, 1 long picot, 1 double = close the ring = fasten off the two threads on the wrong side with two or three st.i.tches.

After the first knot join the next ring to the preceding one by the long picot, and work the remainder as has been already described.

When you have a sufficient number of rings, pick up the picots by crochet trebles with 3 chain st.i.tches between them. On this first row, crochet a second, consisting of: 2 chain, 1 picot, 2 chain, 1 single in the treble of the 1st row. To finish the bottom part of the work, make 1 plain in the 1st picot, 3 chain; 1 plain in the 2nd picot, 3 chain, 1 plain in the 3rd picot, 1 chain, 1 plain in the 1st picot of the next ring.

One row of single crochet serves as a footing to the edging.

[Ill.u.s.tration: FIG. 503. TATTED EDGING IN THREE ROWS. MATERIALS: Fil d'Alsace D.M.C in b.a.l.l.s Nos. 30 to 70, or Cordonnet 6 fils D.M.C Nos. 20 to 60.]

TATTED EDGING IN THREE ROWS (fig. 503).--Worked with two shuttles. The first row is worked like fig. 495, with one shuttle. The second and third are worked with two.

Fasten the thread of the right hand shuttle into the first picot; then work on this thread the same number of double knots and picots as in the 1st row and join each half ring to the picot of the row before. In the 3rd row, insert 3 picots between the 8 double knots of the row above.

Here the Josephine picot may be subst.i.tuted for the plain picot.

[Ill.u.s.tration: FIG. 504. TATTED EDGING. MATERIALS: Fil d'Alsace D.M.C in b.a.l.l.s Nos. 30 to 70, or Fil a dentelle D.M.C Nos. 25 to 50. COLOURS: ecru and Bleu-Indigo 334, or Jaune d'Ocre 667 and Rouge-Cornouille 450, Gris-Tilleul 331 and Brun-Caroubier 356.]

TATTED EDGING (fig. 504).--Worked with two shuttles and two colours.

After making a string of rings like those in fig. 502, with Fil d'Alsace D.M.C No. 30 ecru, fasten the blue and unbleached threads of the respective shuttles to the middle picot. Holding the light thread in the right hand, and the dark one laid over the left hand, work: 3 double, 1 picot, 3 double = then put the right hand thread separately through the 2 picots of the rings and continue to make: 3 double, 1 picot, 3 double.

The next row also is made with two shuttles. Hold the light thread in the right hand; with the dark thread, laid across the left hand, make: *

4 double, 1 picot, 2 double, 1 picot, 2 double = turn the work = with the right hand shuttle make: 6 double, put the thread through the little picot formed above the middle picot of the rings, 6 double, close the ring = turn the work = make with two shuttles: 2 double, 1 picot, 2 double, 1 picot, 4 double, put the light thread through the 2 blue picots and repeat from *. The first row of crochet for the footing consists of chain and plain st.i.tches only, the second, of chain st.i.tches and trebles.

MEDALLION (fig. 505).--Take two colours of thread and fill two shuttles with the light colour and two with the dark. Make with one shuttle: 24 double and 12 picots, 6 of them short and 6 long; close the ring, break off the thread and fasten off the ends by a st.i.tch or two on the wrong side.--For the next 4 rows take two shuttles.

[Ill.u.s.tration: FIG. 505. MEDALLION. MATERIALS: Fil d'Alsace D.M.C in b.a.l.l.s Nos. 30 to 50.[A] COLOURS: White and Rouge-Geranium 352, or ecru and Vert-Mousse 471, Bleu pale 668 and Jaune d'Or 676.]

1st row--with the shuttles containing the light colour = fasten the ends on to a short picot and make: * 3 double, 1 short picot, 2 double, 1 long picot, 2 double, 1 long picot, 2 double, 1 long picot, 2 double, 1 short picot, 3 double; pa.s.s the right hand thread through one of the short picots of the first ring, repeat the series 5 times from *.

When you reach the 6th half ring, instead of making the second picot, put the left hand thread through the short picot of the first half ring, then complete the last double knots, cut the threads off, pa.s.s them through the picot of the ring and fasten them off on the wrong side.

2nd row--with the shuttles filled with the light colour = fasten the ends on to a long picot, then make: * 4 double, 1 picot, 4 double, pa.s.s the right hand thread through the picot of the first row and repeat the series 17 times from *.

3rd row--with the shuttles filled with the dark colour = fasten the ends on to one of the picots of the last row and make: * 4 double, pa.s.s the right hand thread through the picot of the 2nd row, make a long picot, 4 double and repeat this series all round the medallion, until you have 18 scallops.

4th row--with the shuttles filled with the dark colour = * 2 double, 1 picot, 2 double, 1 picot, 2 double, 1 picot, 2 double, pa.s.s the right hand thread, from the wrong side, through the picot of the 2nd row and begin again from *.

[Ill.u.s.tration: FIG. 506. INSERTION OF TATTING AND CROCHET. MATERIALS: Fil d'Alsace D.M.C in b.a.l.l.s Nos. 30 to 70, or Fil a dentelle D.M.C Nos.

25 to 50. COLOURS: Bleu de France 344 and Jaune-Rouille 365.]

INSERTION OF TATTING AND CROCHET (fig. 506).--Fill two shuttles, one with a light colour, say, Bleu de France 344, the other with a darker, such as Jaune-Rouille 365, and two numbers coa.r.s.er than the thread you intend to use for the crochet. Begin with the dark colour and make: * 4 double, 1 picot, 8 double, 1 picot, 4 double, close the ring. With both shuttles, the light colour in the left hand: 4 double, 1 picot, 2 double, 1 picot, 2 double, 1 picot, 4 double, put the right hand thread through the picot of the first circle; then add: 4 double, 1 picot, 2 double, 1 picot, 2 double, 1 picot, 4 double.

With the shuttle, filled with the dark colour: 5 double, pa.s.s the thread through the picot of the first ring, make 8 double, 1 picot, 5 double, close the ring. Then, leaving a short length of thread between, make: 4 double, put the thread through the picot of the preceding ring, 8 double, 1 picot, 4 double, close the ring **; then repeat from * to **.

When you have thus made two equal lengths, join them together with crochet, using a thread two numbers finer than the tatting thread; if the latter for instance was Fil d'Alsace No. 30, you would take No. 50 of the same material for the crochet--1 plain in the 1st picot, 5 chain, 1 plain in the middle picot, 5 chain, 1 plain in the 3rd and 1st picot = then, over 5 chain: 1 s.e.xtuple cl.u.s.ter st.i.tch (fig. 426), 5 chain.

In the row on the opposite side of the tatting, take out the crochet needle at the 3rd chain st.i.tch and put it in from beneath into the corresponding st.i.tch of the opposite row; in this manner join the two insertions together so as to complete the pattern.

[Ill.u.s.tration: FIG. 507. INSERTION OF TATTING AND CROCHET.

MATERIALS--For the tatting: Fil d'Alsace D.M.C in b.a.l.l.s Nos. 30 to 70, or Cordonnet 6 fils D.M.C Nos. 25 to 50, ecru or white.[A] For the crochet: The same materials, but two numbers finer.]

[Ill.u.s.tration: FIG. 508. WORKING DETAIL OF FIG. 507.]

INSERTION OF TATTING AND CROCHET (figs. 507 and 508).--Worked with one shuttle. The tatting thread should be two numbers coa.r.s.er than the crochet thread. Begin with 2 strings of half rings consisting of: 4 short picots and 3 long. Leave a length of thread between, equal to the diameter of the ring.

When the two strings of half rings are finished, crochet with the fine thread: 6 plain over each length of thread between, and at the base of the scallops.

2nd row--5 chain, 1 plain in the 4th plain of the 1st row.

In the row that connects the two rows of tatting, put the 3rd chain st.i.tch into the corresponding st.i.tch of the opposite row.

For the outside edge make: 1 plain in the 1st short picot, 8 chain *, 1 treble in the 2nd short picot, 7 chain, 1 treble in the 3rd short picot, 8 chain, 1 plain in the 4th short picot, 1 plain in the short picot opposite, 3 chain, pa.s.s the thread through the 4th of the 8 chain st.i.tches, 4 chain and repeat from *.

For the last row make: 3 plain in each of the 3 last of 8 chain, * 1 picot of 5 chain above the treble, 4 plain in the 4 next chain, 1 picot, 1 single in the same st.i.tch as the plain before the picot, 3 plain, 1 picot, 3 plain, miss the 1st and the last st.i.tch, then make 3 plain on the next scallop and repeat from *.

[Ill.u.s.tration: FIG. 509. EDGING OF TATTING AND CROCHET. MATERIALS--For the tatting: Fil d'Alsace D.M.C in b.a.l.l.s No. 30 in two shades of one colour. For the crochet: Fil d'Alsace D.M.C in b.a.l.l.s No. 50 in one colour only.]

EDGING OF TATTING AND CROCHET (fig. 509).--Worked with two shuttles and in two shades. With the light shade: 2 double, 1 short picot, 2 double, 1 long picot, * 2 double, 1 picot of the ordinary size, 2 double, 1 picot, 2 double, 1 picot, 2 double, 1 long picot, 2 double, 1 short picot, 2 double, close the ring = with 2 shuttles: 3 double, pa.s.s the thread through the 1st picot, make 3 double, 1 long picot, 2 double = with the light shade: 4 double, pa.s.s the thread through the 9th picot of the 1st ring, make 3 double, 1 picot, 4 double, close the ring = with 2 shuttles: 2 double, 1 picot, 3 double, 1 short picot, 3 double = with one shuttle: 2 double, pa.s.s the thread through the empty picot of the small ring, make 2 double, pa.s.s the thread through the long picot of the big ring, then repeat from *.

To complete the edge, crochet first one row, consisting of: * 1 plain in the 1st of the 5 picots of the big ring, 4 chain, 1 plain in the 2nd picot, 4 chain, 1 plain in the 3rd picot, 4 chain, 1 plain in the 4th picot, 4 chain, 1 plain in the 5th picot and repeat from *.

2nd row--2 plain on the 3rd and 4th of the first chain st.i.tches = over the 2nd and 3rd chain: 1 plain, 1 half treble, 2 trebles, 1 half treble, 1 plain; on the 4 last chain: 2 plain.

For the footing make: 1 plain in the long picot, 5 chain, 1 plain in the next picot, 5 chain, 1 double treble in the short picot, leave the 2 last loops of the treble on the needle = 3 trebles in the first lower loop of the double treble, keep the last loops of these 3 trebles on the needle, after the 4th treble, draw the needle through the 4 trebles. The last row consists of: 3 chain, 1 treble over 5 chain.

TATTED MEDALLION (fig. 510).--Worked with two shuttles and two colours.

1st row--with one shuttle: 12 double and 6 picots, close the ring.