TIDY IN SQUARE CROCHET.

MATERIALS.--Brooks' Great Exhibition Prize Goat's-head Crochet Cotton, No. 14: Walker's Penelope Crochet-hook, No. 21/2.

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Make a chain of 289 st.i.tches, which will form ninety-nine squares; with this cotton and hook it will measure twenty-five inches; the pattern must be worked from the engraving, and may be increased in size by using a coa.r.s.er cotton and thicker hook.

ARABESQUE TOILET-COVER IN SQUARE CROCHET.

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This pattern should be worked in Brooks' Great Exhibition Prize Goat's-head Crochet Cotton, exactly to the size of the top of the table, in rather thick cotton, to make it look ma.s.sive, and to retain its form; the edging must be worked in blue beads in crochet to the pattern, and a number of beads given exactly to go round the table and to hang down, and finished with a ta.s.sel at each corner.

COVER FOR A HADROT LAMP.

MATERIALS.--Half-a-dozen skeins of each of seven shades of green wool, and four of scarlet ditto. A fine netting-needle, four knitting-needles, No. 14, and the same of No. 16.

With the darkest green wool cast on 96 st.i.tches on each of three of the coa.r.s.est knitting-needles (that is, 288 altogether), and close into a round.

1st round: Plain knitting.

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2nd: * knit 1, make 1, knit 6, knit 3 together, knit 6, make 1, * 18 times.

3rd: Plain knitting.

4th: Change to the darkest scarlet, and repeat the second round.

5th: Knit 7, * knit 3 together, knit 13, * 17 times; knit 3 together, knit 6.

6th: * knit 1, make 1, knit 5, knit 3 together, knit 5, make 1, * 18 times.

7th: Plain knitting.

8th: Change to the next shade of green, and repeat the 6th round.

9th: Knit 6, * knit 3 together, knit 11, * 17 times; knit 3 together, knit 5.

10th: * knit 1, make 1, knit 4, knit 3 together, knit 4, make 1, * 18 times.

11th: Plain knitting.

12th: Change to the next shade of scarlet, and repeat the 10th round.

13th: Knit 5, * knit 3 together, knit 9, * 17 times; knit 3 together, knit 4.

14th: * knit 1, make 1, knit 3, knit 3 together, knit 3, make 1, * 18 times.

15th: Plain knitting.

16th: Change to the next shade of green, and repeat the 14th round.

17th: Knit 4, * knit 3 together, knit 7, * 17 times; knit 3 together, knit 3.

18th: * knit 1, make 1, knit 2, knit 3 together, knit 2, make 1, * 18 times.

19th: Knit 3, * knit 3 together, knit 5, * 17 times; knit 3 together, knit 2.

20th and 21st: Plain knitting, using the finer needles, and decreasing until there are only 96 st.i.tches in the round.

22nd: * knit 1, make 1, knit 2 together, make 1, knit 2 together, knit 1, make 1, knit 2 together, knit 1, slip 1, knit 1, pa.s.s the slip st.i.tch over, make 1, knit 1, * times.

23rd: * knit 1, make 1, knit 2 together, twice, knit 7, * 8 times.

24th: Like 22nd.

25th: * slip 1, knit 1, pa.s.s the slip st.i.tch over, make 1, slip 1, knit 1, pa.s.s the slip st.i.tch over, make 1, knit 8, * 8 times.

26th: * slip 1, knit 4, pa.s.s the slip st.i.tch over, make 1, slip 1, knit 1, pa.s.s the slip st.i.tch over, make 1, knit 3, make 1, slip two together, knit 1, pa.s.s the 2 slip over, make 1, knit 2, * 8 times.

27th: Like the 25th.

28th: * knit 1, make 1, knit 2 together, make 1, knit 2 together, knit 1, slip 1, knit 1, pa.s.s the slip st.i.tch over, make 1, knit 1, make 1, knit 2 together, knit 1, * 8 times.

29th: * knit 1, make 1, knit 2 together, make 1, knit 2 together, knit 7, * 8 times.

30th: Like 28th.

31st: * ** slip 1, knit 1, pa.s.s the slip st.i.tch over, make 1, **

twice, knit 8, * 8 times.

32nd: * ** slip 1, knit 1, pa.s.s the slip st.i.tch over, make 1, **

twice, knit 1, slip 1, knit 1, pa.s.s the slip st.i.tch over, make 1, knit 3, make 1, knit 2 together, * 8 times.