CROCHET MAT.
Materials.—Berlin wool—3 shades of brown, 3 of green, 1 of violet, and 1 of yellow.
Make the eyelet-hole in the centre, with the lightest brown; 9 ch., form into a round, and work under it 18 sc. stitches.
Take the medium shade of brown and make 6 similar eyelet-holes, which are to be joined to each other, and to the centre one, by sewing them at the back with a rug needle.
With the darkest brown, make 12 more eyelet-holes, and having worked them all round in sc., join them to the 6, (2 to each) as seen in the Engraving.
Twelve heartsease must then be worked, thus: with violet wool make a chain of 5, close into a round,+11 ch., sc. under the loop,+twice, 3 ch., slip at the back of the loops, work in dc. round the two loops, missing the last stitch of the first loop, and the first of the second, and working together the two stitches at the joining of the two loops. End with a sc. under the chain of five.
Take the yellow, sc. under the chain of 5, 9 ch., sc. under same, 11 ch., sc. under same, 9 ch., sc. under the same.
Slip on the round to the beginning of the yellow, and dc. the third violet and second yellow chain together; dc. all round the 9 ch., connect it to the 11 by two stitches, and then dc. round the 11; join the second 9 to the 11 by two stitches, and, at the last two, connect with the first violet petal. Fasten off, and sew the twelve heartsease round the eyelet-holes.
Take the middle shade of green,✕sc. on the left side yellow petal of the first heartsease, 12 ch., sc. on the right side yellow petal of the second, 9 ch., slip across the back of the flower,✕; repeat all round.
With the same shade of green—✕7 dc. on the top of the violet petals of the first heartsease, 3 ch., 2 dc. on the centre loops of the 12 ch.,✕; repeat all round.
Dark green, 5 sc.✕4 ch., miss 1, sc. the other three, 5 sc., 6 ch., miss 1, sc. 5 of them, 5 sc., 4 ch., sc. 3 of them, 10 sc.✕; repeat all round, ending with 5 sc. The chains form veinings for leaves.
Second shade of green—sc. on sc., and tc. all round all the veinings, working two in one at every point.
Take the lightest green, and repeat the preceding round, working three in the two at the point of each vein, and catching the sides together.
With the same shade, work the scallops all round,+dc. in 1 stitch, 3 tc. in next, 1 dc. in next✕: repeat.