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 WRITING - CASE.

BY MRS. JANE WEAVER. MATERIALS.-Blue silk, coarse gray crochet cotton, blue silk cord, cardboard, blue filoselle. This Writing - Case is very pretty and easily made. It is covered with gray cotton plaiting, varnished with copal varnish, so as to imitate carved wood. The back and pockets of the case are of blue glace silk, ornamented round the edge with blue silk braid. Cut first the covers of thick cardboard, each twelve inches long, nine inches wide, and cover them with plaiting from No. 2, which shows that the cotton is not cut off at the edges of the cardboard. Both covers are joined together on one side

with a strip of blue silk one inch and a fifth wide, which forms the back ; the same material

TATTED

AND

lines the wrong side of the covers. A piece of coarse tape must be sewn in at the back. For the pockets, which are fastened inside the covers, cut two pieces of blue silk, lined with thin cardboard. The pockets must be much longer than the covers, so as to make a deep pleat at the sides, which is to take the place of gores. Then sew the cardboard lining into the pockets with button-hole stitches of blue silk, and fasten the pockets on three sides of the cover. Lastly, edge the case with blue silk braid, and fasten some fly-leaves of blottingpaper by means of a piece of blue silk ribbon.

CROCHET

EDGE.

by the outer scallops, worked with the helpingthread, and on the other by the closed eyes, worked with fine cotton. The scallops contain three double knots, three picots separated by two double knots, and three double knots ; the WITH coarse cotton work first the Josephine closed eyes contain twelve double knots. The knots containing six of the concluding stitches footing consists of an interrupted row of treble of a double knot. They are joined on one side in the joining thread of the closed eyes.

INITIALS.

CROCHET.

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