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248 over, knit two together. The over or made stitch must always be slipped and the decreased stitch and the slipped stitch of the previous row knitted together.

A pretty sofa cushion or hassock is knit in German Brioche as follows:

Three skeins yellow, two white, three red, three purple, three green, six gray, of double Berlin wool. Needles, No. 5.

Cast on sixty-four stitches with yellow.

1st row: Wool forward; slip one, knit one.

2nd row: Join the white. The remainder is all brioche stitch; do two rows, then two yellow rows.

Join the gray; knit eighteen brioche (this is really fifty-four stitches), leaving fourteen on the other un-knitted. Turn back and knit four brioche; turn again and knit five brioche; turn and knit six. Continue taking three more stitches every time you turn, until you come to the end of your needles. Then do another yellow and white stripe.

Join the scarlet, and work as before. There have to be eighteen sections altogether, a gray one separating each bright-colored one. Make a round cushion filled with feathers or curled hair, and put the knitting over, sewing it neatly together. Draw in the centre, which may be finished off with an ornamental button; sew a silk cord round the edge.

Very handsome hearth rugs may be knit either of rags cut and sewed as for rag carpets, and knit in garter stitch, or else of twine with bits of cloth, strands of thick Smyrna wool, or ravelings of tapestry Brussels carpet looped in. These rugs are much more easily managed if knit in strips or blocks and afterwards sewed together. They may be made oblong, oval, or round as suits one's taste. The colors may be arranged so as to form a sort