The Ladies' Work-Book Part 31

5th: X 5 over six, missing as before, X repeat.

6th: X 4 over five, as before, X repeat.

7th: X 3 over four, as before, X repeat.

8th: X 2 over three, as before, X repeat.

Before darning netting, wash it perfectly clean, stiffen it by dipping it into a little gum-water, and pin it out on a pillow, in the proper form, to dry. Then darn it with embroidery cotton, every square of the pattern being closely filled up.

SHORT PURSE, IN NETTING.

As the following specimen is done only in the ordinary netting st.i.tch, we do not think any particular explanation of the art of netting can be needed by our readers, it being so universally known. Indeed, it would be extremely difficult to teach the st.i.tch by writing. Whenever any st.i.tch, except that used in common netting, may occur in any of the following designs, we will endeavour to explain it as clearly as possible.

MATERIALS.--Very fine crimson netting silk, and gold thread. Two steel meshes are required, one about No. 15, and one No. 11. Eagle card-board gauge.

Make a piece of foundation of 9 st.i.tches, and join your silk in the first.

1st round (small mesh). 1 st.i.tch in every st.i.tch of the foundation.

2nd: The same.

3rd: 2 st.i.tches in every one of the previous round.

4th: A st.i.tch in every one of the last round.

5th: X 2 st.i.tches in the first, and one in the second, X 8 times.

6th: A st.i.tch in every st.i.tch.

7th: Increase eight st.i.tches in the round, by doing two in one eight times, taking care that the st.i.tch increased is the one which precedes the increased st.i.tch of the last augmented round.

8th: Like 6th.

9th: Like 7th.

10th, 12th, 14th, 16th, 18th, 20th, 22nd: Like 6th.

The intermediate rounds like the 7th. There ought now to be 88 st.i.tches in the round. Do 44 more rounds, without any increase. Then take the large mesh, and do another round. Take the small mesh, X miss one st.i.tch, take a st.i.tch in the second, then one in the st.i.tch that was missed. X Repeat this all round.

[Ill.u.s.tration: SHORT PURSE, IN NETTING.]

Do four rounds of plain netting with the small mesh, then begin to make the points. 1st point: 7 st.i.tches; draw out the mesh, X turn the work, and make a st.i.tch on every one but the last; X repeat till you come to a point.

2nd and following points, like the first, so that there are 11 in the round.

The pattern is then to be darned with the gold thread, according to the design we have given.

[Ill.u.s.tration: BRIDAL PURSE, IN CROCHET.]

BRIDAL PURSE, IN CROCHET.

MATERIALS.--Six skeins of white crochet silk, two skeins of _ombre_ scarlet ditto, in long shades, three skeins of slate-colour, and one of bright scarlet. Two ounces of transparent white beads, rather larger than seed beads, four strings of gold, the same size, and a hank of steel to match. For the garnitures (which must be entirely of bright steel), two rings, a handsome ta.s.sel for one end, and a deep fringe for the other. Boulton's tapered indented Crochet Hook, No. 23.

Begin by threading all the white beads on the white silk; half the gold on the _ombre_ cerise, and the steel on the slate-coloured. What scarlet silk is used in the square end is without beads; the few rows at the other end, of that colour, are threaded with gold, which may be put on afterwards.

The design of the square end consists of a spray of roses and leaves, the former in scarlet _ombre_ with gold beads intermixed, the latter with slate-silk and steel. The ground is composed wholly of white beads, one being dropped on every st.i.tch; where, therefore, the scarlet and slate silks are worked without beads, they appear to be _in intaglio_. A scroll of steel beads below the group is intermixed with the white, and the top and bottom of the square end are finished off with vand.y.k.es of plain scarlet without beads. At the bottom is an open pattern in scarlet, to which is attached the fringe.

Begin with the plain scarlet silk, with which make a chain of 100 st.i.tches, and close it into a round. Work one round in scarlet, using in the end of white silk.

2nd round: In which you begin to drop on the white beads. X 2 white, 3 scarlet, X 20 times.

3rd: X 3 white, 1 scarlet, 1 white, X 20 times.

4th: All white; work in the scarlet silk all round, and then fasten it off, as no more is required until the whole square end is worked.

5th: X 22 white, 1 steel, 23 white, 1 steel, 3 white, X twice.

6th: X 21 white, 2 steel, 22 white, 2 steel, 3 white, X twice.

7th: X 3 white, 1 steel, 5 white, 2 steel, 3 white, 2 steel, 4 white, 3 steel, 2 white, 1 steel, 6 white, 2 steel, 4 white, 2 steel, 3 white, 3 steel, 4 white, X twice.

8th: X 3 white, 2 steel, 3 white, 3 steel, * 2 white, 4 steel, *

twice; 2 white, 2 steel, 4 white, 3 steel, 3 white, 3 steel, 2 white, 4 steel, 4 white, X twice.

9th: X 2 white, 3 steel, * 2 white, 4 steel, * 3 times; 1 white, 3 steel, 3 white, 4 steel, ** 2 white, 4 steel, ** twice, 4 white, X twice.

10th: X 2 white, 2 steel, * 3 white, 3 steel, * 3 times; 2 white, 2 steel, 4 white, 3 steel, ** 3 white 3 steel, ** twice, 5 white, X twice.

11th: X 1 white, 1 steel, 2 white, 4 steel, 4 white, 3 steel, 3 white, 2 steel, 3 white, 1 steel, 3 white, 4 steel, 4 white, 3 steel, 3 white, 2 steel, 3 white, 1 steel, 3 white, X twice.

12th: x 4 steel, 2 white, 1 steel, 1 white, 5 steel, 3 white, 3 steel, 4 white, 4 steel, 2 white, 1 steel, 1 white, 5 steel, 3 white, 3 steel, 4 white, 1 steel, 3 white, X twice.

13th: X 3 white, 2 steel, 2 white, 1 steel, 4 white, 5 steel, 4 white, 2 steel, 3 white, 2 steel, 2 white, 1 steel, 4 white, 5 steel, 4 white, 2 steel, 4 white, X twice.

14th: 3 white, 2 steel, 2 white, 3 steel, 4 white, 4 steel, 8 white, 2 steel, 2 white, 3 steel, 4 white, 4 steel, 9 white, X twice.

15th: X 4 white, 1 steel, * 3 white, 4 steel, * twice, 8 white, 1 steel, ** 3 white, 4 steel, ** twice, 8 white, X twice.