NETTED
OPERA - HOOD.
BY MRS . JANE WEAVER.
THE materials for this useful and pretty hood are two ounces of white, half an ounce of colored, Berlin wool ; a netting- needle ; meshes of two sizes. Begin in the middle with white wool. Put on sixtyfour stitches, and net forward and backward. At the end of each row or line, leave the last stitch of the preceding row without netting, until the number is reduced to one stitch, which finishes half of the hood. Then tie the thread on to the other side of the stitches put on at the commencement, and work as before, until the number of stitches on that side is also reduced to one, which completes the foundation. The border is worked all round the outer edge with white wool. For the 1st row: Net one stitch in each stitch round the hood. 2nd row: Net 5 stitches in one stitch, and pass over the next stitch.
TRAVELING
DRESSING - CASE.
BY MRS . JANE WEAVER. In the front of the number, we give three engravings of a new and elegant Dressing-Case for travelers : one is the Dressing-Case open ; another is the Dressing-Case closed ; and the third is the pattern to be worked . The materials are American toile ciree ; six each large and small pearl buttons ; two yards of narrow black elastic ; two yards of black sarsnet ribbon three-quarters of an inch wide ;
one skein of lilac, and one skein of green crochet silk ; six yards of binding. The outside of this Dressing-Case is made of American cloth ; it is 21 inches long and 11 inches broad ; the lining, of toile ciree, of which the green side is shown, is exactly the same size ; the pockets, of American cloth, at the ends, are of the entire width of the case, and 5 inches in depth ; at the outer sides of these 69