FISH CLOTH.[Fig. 7.]
Materials.—Cotton of the following colors: two reels white, two green, one dark blue, one light blue, one black, one lemon color. The colors will be indicated throughout by their respective initials. The cotton should be Nos. 10 or 12, and a very small quantity of Evans’s boar’s-head, No. 40; hooks, Nos. 10 and 20; eagle card-board gauge.
Begin by making the lemon slices thus:—with cotton, No. 40; hook, No. 20, make 1 chain of 12; close it into a loop, and work it all round in dc., taking the stitches under the chain. Do this four times, when all the pips will be made. With the yellow cotton, work a chain, connecting all these from point to point, in a circle. Work a round of white in the yellow, with two tc. stitches in every chain. Then a round of tc. in yellow on the white, with two stitches in every alternate one. This completes one lemon slice. Four of them must be made and sewed on the corners of the fish cloth after it is completed. The pips only are to be done with a fine needle and fine cotton.
With the coarse white cotton, and hook, No. 10, make a chain of 116; work eight rows in open square crochet.
9th.—17 os. in white, 1 dc. in dark blue, 3 dc. in light blue, 2 ch. in white, 2 dc. light blue, 18 open squares in white. Observe that in future rows the colors will be indicated by their respective initials.
10th.—17 os. w., 1 dc. d. b., 4 dc. l. b., 2 ch. w., 3 dc. l. b., 18 os. w.
11th.—17 os. w., 2 dc. d. b., 3 dc. l. b 2, dc. w., ? dc. l. b., 17 os. w.
12th.—16 os. w., 3 dc. d., 2 dc. l. b., 2 dc. b., (to form the eye), ? dc.w., 4 dc. l. b., 17 os. w.
13th.—16 os. w., 4 dc. d. b., 3 dc. l. b., 4 dc. w., 5 dc. l. b., 17 os. w.
14.—16 os. w., 4 dc. d. b., 4 dc. l. b., 4 dc. w., 5 dc. l. b., 16 os. w.
15th.—15 os. w., 4 dc. d. b., 4 dc. l. b., 5 dc. w., 4 dc. l. b., 1 dc. d. b., 15 os., w.
16th.—15 os. w., 4 dc. d. b., 3 dc. l. b., 6 dc. w., 2 dc. l. b., 1 dc. d. b., 3 dc. l. b., 1 ch. w.; open squares in white to the end.
17th.—15 os. w., 4 dc. d. b., 4 dc. l. b., 6 dc. w., 1 dc. l. b., 6 dc. l. b.; open squares in white to the end.
18th.—14 os. w., ending with one chain, 4 dc. d. b., 4 dc. l. b., dc. w., 2 dc. d. b., 1 dc. w., 6 dc. l. b.; finish with os. in white.
19th.—14 os. w., 4 dc. d. b., 4 dc. l. b., 11 dc. w., 6 dc. l. b.; open squares to the end in white.
20th—14 os. w., 4 dc. d. b., 4 dc. l. b., 13 dc. w., 6 dc. l. b.; finish with open squares in white.
21st and 22nd.—Like 20.
23rd.—13 os. w., 1 ch, w., 3 dc. d. b., 5 dc. l. b., 15 dc. w., 7 dc. l. b.; open squares in white to the end.
24th.—13 os. w., 3 dc. d. b., 5 dc. l. b., 17 dc. w., 6 dc. l. b.; finish with white in os.
25th.—Begin on the first, leaving out the open squares. 3 dc. d. b., 5 dc. l. b., 19 dc. w., 5 dc. l. b.
26th to 31st inclusive.—The same. Now turn back to the twenty-fifth row, and begin a chain in the last stitch of the light blue for the fin; let the chain be composed of twelve stitches; on that chain, work 2 sc., 3 dc., 7 tc.; turn, and work 7 dc., 2 sc., which will make it even with the row above, if the three last stitches are missed along this; work a row of sc. to unite it to the fish, as in the Engraving. Then work open squares in white from the row you first missed, then to the last, that is, the thirty-first row. Do the same on the other side of the fish, taking care that the lower fin reaches a little lower than the upper one. Begin the second fin on the twenty-sixth row.
32nd.—13 os. w., 1 ch. w., 4 dc. d. b., 5 dc. l. b., 17 dc. w., 5 dc. l. b; finish with open squares in white.
33rd.—13 os. w., 2 ch. w., 4 dc. d. b., 5 dc. l. b., 15 dc. w., 5 dc.l. b; finish as before.
34th.—14 os. w., 3 dc. d. b., 5 dc. l. b., 13 dc. w., 5 dc. l. b.; finish as before.
35th.—14 os. w., 3 dc. d. b., 5 dc. l. b., 11 dc. w., 5 dc. l. b.; finish as before.
36th.—14 os. w., 1 ch. w., 3 dc. d. b., 5 dc. l. b., 9 dc. w., 5 dc. l. b.; finish with white os.
37th.—15 os. w., 3 dc. d. b., 5 dc. l. b., 7 dc. w., 5 dc. l. b.; finish with white open squares.
38th.—15 os. w., 1 ch. w., 3 dc. d. b., 5 dc. l. b., 5 dc. w., 5 dc. l. b.; finish with white os.
39th.—The same.
40th.—15 os. w., 2 ch. w., 3 dc. d. b., 4 dc. l. b., 5 dc. w., 3 dc. l. b., 2 dc. 2 ch. w.; open squares in white to the end.
41st.—16 os. w., 2 dc. d. b., 4 dc. l. b., 5 dc. w., 2 dc. l. b., 2 ch.; open squares in white to the end.
42nd.—15 os. w., 1 ch. w., 2 dc. d. b., 4 dc. l. b., 7 dc. w., 2 dc. l. b.; open squares in white to the end.
43rd.—15 os. w., 2 dc. d. b., 4 dc. l. b., 9 dc. w., 2 dc. l. b.; finish with open squares to the end.
44th.—14 open squares in white, 2 dc. d. b., 4 dc. l. b., 4 dc. w., 2 dc. l. b., 5 dc. w., 2 dc. l. b.; open squares in white at the end.
45th.—14 open squares in white, 2 dc. d. b., 3 dc. l. b., 5 dc. w., 1 dc. l. b., 2 ch. w.;, 1 dc. l. b., 6 dc. w., 1 dc. l. b., 1 ch.; and open squares to the end in white.
46th.—14 os. w., 2 dc. d. b., 3 dc. l. b., 4 dc. w., dc. l. b., 1 ch., 1 dc., 2 ch., 1 dc., 1 ch., all in white, 1 dc. l. b., 4 dc. w., 1 dc. l. b., 1 ch. and os. in white.
47th.—14 os. w., 1 ch. w., 2 dc. d. b., 1 dc. l. b., 3 dc. w., 1 dc. l. b., 2 ch., 1 dc.. 2 ch., 1 dc.. 2 ch., all in white, 1 dc. l. b., 2 dc. w., 1 dc. l. b., 2 ch. and open squares to the end in white.
48th.—14 os. w., 1 ch. w., 2 dc. d. b., 1 dc. l. b., 1 dc. w., 1 dc. l. b.,✕2 ch., 1 dc.✕4 times, and 2 ch., w., 1 dc. l. b., 2 dc. w., 1 dc. l. b., 1 ch., and open squares to the end in white. Finish with eight rows of open squares in white cotton.
For the border, for which the green cotton is to be used:
Make a chain of 16, turn, miss 2, 2 sc., 3 dc., 4 tc., 3 dc., 2 sc., 1 ch., turn; work the same on the other side of the chain of 16, and fasten off.
This completes one leaf; let as many be done as may be required to go all round the D’oyley,rather more than twice. Then, with fine green cotton, sew the points of some, at regular intervals, round the Fish Cloth. Make a chain all round, connecting the base of the leaves at regular intervals. On the chain, work a row of sc., connecting the ends of the remaining leaves for the outer row.
Or the leaves might be made with a chain of 5 between each; the second row of leaves being worked on the other side.