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PIANOFORTE

CANDLESTICK

fronts are knitted in a similar manner, and when the three pieces are completed, they are joined together over the shoulders and under the arms. If sleeves are required, they must be commenced at the wrist, working from a paper pattern in the same manner as the body; these must also be joined up and sewn in. They are now frequently dispensed with, as they are

PIANOFORTE

ORNAMENT.

inconvenient to pass over the sleeve of a dress' a loose under-sleeve of the same pattern being substituted. This jacket will require a simple ornamental border, which has a better effect when worked in crochet, any slight pattern being sufficient to form a finish. This border must be carried up the two fronts, as well as round the bottom of the jacket.

CANDLESTICK

ORNAMENT.

BY MADEMOISELLE ROCHE.

THIS little article is worked in two colors of Berlin wool, a bright scarlet and a rich green producing an extremely good effect. The ovals are made separately, commencing on a ring ; but the pattern being so extremely simple, it can easily be seen from the engraving. Eight of these form the ornament, arranged of alternate colors. When these are finished, a chain, long enough to encircle a candle loosely, must be formed into a ring, and on this, by means of a second row of crochet, taking up an oval at regular intervals, the eight are to be attached. When placed on the candlestick, they are each to overwrap the next, the one which appears uncovered in our engraving being left so that the worker might see it entire.

BEAD

BORDER

FOR

MATS.

BY MRS. JANE WEAVER. KNOWING many ladies often feel the want of an easily made border for their drawing-room mats of various kinds, we this month insert one, which may be found generally useful. It is formed of two bands of opaque white beads. The colors must depend on taste, or be regulated by those of the mat to which it is to be attached. It is commenced by taking a long thread, with a needle at each end, taking four beads on one needle, then passing the other through them, and drawing them up tight into the middle of the thread, repeating until the required length is gained. { mat, under and over, like a chain, each being Two bands of different colors, being made in fastened down in the places where the upper this way, are to be laid on to the edge of a one overwraps.