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CATERPILLAR FRINGE.
quently, four red and four white threads. For , draw a loop through ; repeat from * twice, so each loop take a thread twice as long as the that in the whole the three threads thrown required length for the fringe. This had better round, and the three loops will be upon the be measured each time, that the work may be needle. Then all the threads are drawn through quite even. Twist the thread with your finger with one single loop, and fastened with one and thumb rather tightly. When the twist is chain-stitch. The conclusion of the head forms prepared, fasten it immediately with a single the scallop. For this, crochet in each chaincrochet-stitch, that it may not untwist again. stitch of the preceding row one single, then The head of the fringe must be worked in three chain, one treble in the first of these, one crochet when an entire line as long as required single in the next chain of the preceding row, is completed. For this, work in each single and so on. The red and white fringe is faststitch of the fringe a loop of tuft-stitch. For ened with white single stitches, ornamented that, * loop the thread round the needle and with red tufts, and has white escallops.
VIOLETTA
HEAD- DRESS .
In the front of the number, we give an engraving of a very pretty head-dress, the Violetta. Make a square by crossing some velvet ribbon, black or violet-colored, half an inch wide, as seen in the design. On the flocks, where the ribbon erosses, ornament with a
EDGING ,
single violet, (the silk violets are the prettiest, and the largest size. ) Make a group of four or five for the corners, and finish with doubl loops and ends of the velvet ribbon. This is one of the very prettiest, newest, and most simple, of the many head-dresses now in vogue.
MUSLIN
EMBROIDERY .
