CROCHET EDGING.[WORKED THE LONG WAY.]
Materials.—For Anti-Macassars, use cotton No. 8; crochet hook, No. 16. For trimming petticoats, cotton, No. 30; crochet hook, No. 19 or 20. Make a chain of the length required; or, to trim an Anti-Macassar, work a row of sc. all round.
1st. row.—Dc.
2nd.—1 dc., 1 ch., miss 1. Repeat.
3rd.—+7 sc., 5 ch., miss 1, 1 dc., 6 ch., miss 1, 1 dc., 7 ch., miss 1, 1 dc., 6 ch., miss 1, 1 dc. 5 ch., miss 1,+. Repeat. (In working an Anti-Macassar, do not missanyat the corners in this row, and take care that the 7 chain comes exactly at the corner. This will allow a sufficient fulness for the shell to lie flat.)
4th.—+5 sc. (beginning on the second of 5,) 5 ch., sc. under the first loop; * 6 ch., sc., 7 (7 sc. in last row,) 5 ch., sc. under first loop, * 6 ch., sc. under next loop, * 4 times, 5 ch.,+. Repeat.
5th.—✕3 sc., (beginning on the 2nd of the 5,) 5 ch., sc., under the first loop; * 6 ch., sc. 7 under next loop, * 6 times, 5 ch.,✕.Repeat.
6th.—+1 sc. on centre of 3 in last row, 4 ch., sc. under first loop, * 5 ch., sc. under next. * twice,+6 ch., sc. under next,+twice, † 5 ch., sc. under next, † twice, 4 ch.,+. Repeat.
7th.—Begin on the sc. stitch,+4 sc., 4 ch., slip the needle in the threads of the last sc. stitch, and draw the thread through,+. Continue thus all round. Work every stitch of the last row; the appearance is that a strong and solid edge, with dots at equal distances.
This Edging being more suitable for trimming articles of the lady’s wardrobe than Anti-Macassars and D’oyleys, should be worked with Evans’s boar’s-head, No. 30, crochet hook No. 20; or for children’s dresses, cotton, No. 40, crochet hook, No. 22, eagle card-board gauge.
Make a chain of 17. Miss 7, dc. in 8th, 2 ch.; miss 2, dc. in 3rd, 5 ch., miss 5, dc. in last.
2nd.—Turn the work.—3 ch., 5 dc. on 5 ch., 3 ch., miss 2, 1 dc.,+3 ch., miss 1, 1 dc.,+twice, 4 ch., miss none, 1 dc.
3rd.—Turn the work. 5 ch., dc. under first loop, 3 ch., dc. under the second, 3 ch., 4 dc., (the 1st on 1st ch. of the next loop,) 2 ch., miss 2, 1 dc. on the chain immediately after 5 dc., 5 ch., miss 5 dc., dc. on third of the 3 ch. at the edge.
Repeat the 2nd and 3rd rows until the required quantity is completed.