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 STRIPE IN TRICOT, FOR SOFA-PILLOWS, ANTI-MACASSARS, ETC. BY MRS. JANE WEAVER.

MATERIALS. -Berlin wool of two colors ; filo- Again put the wool round the hook, insert the selle of three colors ; tricot hook, No. 13, bell hook again in the same stitch once more, and gauge. These stripes may be alternated with you will have 7 stitches on the hook. Now draw stripes of plain tricot, or with velvet, rep, etc. the wool at once through 6 of these stitches ; For the center ground-work of the pattern then you will have 2 stitches upon your needle, make a chain of 24 stitches, and work the re- through which draw the wool : repeat from *. quired length of the tricot. Next row, single stitches. To begin the border, work a row of single Next row, raised. Work the single over the stitches, 1 stitch of which is worked through raised, and the raised over the single stitches the edge-stitch, and a stitch through the second of last row. The embroidered flowers, which are worked stitch below, alternately ; then 3 plain rows of single stitches. with silk, do not need explanation. Three colors For the raised pattern *, work 1 single, put may be used if green is introduced in the thick the wool round the hook, and put the hook part of the pattern ; if not, a fourth must be emthrough 2 stitches beneath, in a straight line.ployed, as the little stalk should be green.

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