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KNITTED CAPOTE FOR CHILDREN.

other always thickly at the outer edge. Increase one stitch until, in the sixth row, there are nine stitches. With these crochet fifteen rows, and then, on the same side and in the same manner, decrease the five stitches that were increased until four remain, which finishes the epaulets. These will, with the exception of the straight, long sides, be surrounded with a small border of four rows, in which-not at the corners, but in the middle-there must be an increase of a few stitches, which forms a little point. The epaulet is then overcast and sewn to the bodice, so that the shoulder-seam is in a line with the middle point at the outer edge of the epaulets. Then the lace row round the outer edge of the bodice is worked as follows : One double, then three chain, one double in

the first of the three chain, one double in the third following stitch of the border, so that with the lace scallop two stitches of the same are passed over ; from continue repeating. For each of the little belt parts, which are sewn to the under ends of each front part under the lace row, and tied together behind, make a chain of six stitches, and crochet twenty-two rows straight upward. The outer edge of the strip must be worked with one row of black and one row of white in double stitch round, and at the cross side of one part in the last row make the button-hole. The back part must also be fastened to the button, and one of the lace scallops may serve as a button-hole, or an extra loop made.

KNITTED CAPOTE FOR CHILDREN UNDER TWO YEARS OF AGE.

BY MRS. JANE WEAVER. outer edges of the seventy-six perpendicular rows meet ; sew the outer edges of the division together, and draw the thread firmly, that the outer edge may not be puckered. For the trimming represented in No. 2, in the proper size, crochet with the colored Berlin wool, first along the join at the double knitted part, a line of chain-stitch scallops, consisting alternately of three chain, one double, passing over with the three chain three rows of knitting. Now fold back the knitting, so that the border is formed, and is a portion of the already knitted Capote. Work a similar line of chain-stitch scallops, working through all the four layers of the knitting; then carry the chain-stitch

MATERIALS. -Three- quarters of an ounce of Shetland wool ; quarter of an ounce of blue Berlin wool ; tolerably fine wooden needles. Cast on eighty-six stitches loosely, and knit rows forward and backward. In the first sixteen rows increase one stitch at the beginning and end of each row ; in the next sixteen rows work one row, increasing the next row without Then knit seventy- six rows without increasing, and, lastly, thirty-two rows. Decrease in proportion to the increase in the first thirty-two TOWS. Cast off loosely. Double the knitting in half, so that the two

scallop all round the outer edge of the Capote. The turned-over piece must be ornamented with a pattern in blue wool : and a curtain, about two inches broad, is formed by drawing fine crochet chain of Berlin wool through the Capote. The ends are ornamented with blue tassels, and another cord and tassels fasten the Capote beneath the chin.