TRICOT
BOLSTER .
BY MRS . JANE WEAVER.
MATERIALS.- Black Berlin wool, five- eighths red stripe follow again six rows of black, as at of an ounce ; dark-red, half an ounce ; green the beginning, the four last of these without or blue, three-eighths of an ounce ; white, violet, increasing. Ornament the narrow black stripe with yeland fawn-color together, a quarter of an ounce ; low cross-stitches, and the colored stripes upon two skeins of yellow filoselle, tassels, cord. Our model is worked in alternate stripes of each scalloped portion with a raised pattern. dark-red, blue, and green, ornamented with a { According to our model, those of the red stripes flower pattern separated by a narrow black have two white and three brown leaves, with stripe, ornamented with yellow; the whole is veins of brilliant wool ; those of the green worked in rows forward and backward of com- stripes, two violet and three black leaves, with mon tricot. yellow veins . Then sew the crochet part Begin at one end with a chain of fifty-four lengthwise, stitch for stitch, together, and work stitches in black wool . Continue to work with upon the seam the patterns. Cover the bolster this wool for the first row, (a line forward and with the work, joining the four black points at backward , ) in which work three stitches in each end, and the corresponding scalloped sides the fourteenth, twenty-seventh, and fortieth of the outer black row together. Put cord and stitches by taking up two stitches in them and tassels according to the design. Another very pretty design arranged in similooping round once between them ; in returnlar scallops, but worked round in cross crocheting, work off each stitch separately. 2nd to the 5th row: Increase one stitch at stitch- alternately three rows of broad white, the beginning and end of each row, continuing and six rows of broad crimson stripes, the also the previous increase, for which in the latter having a row of looped crochet-stitch middle stitch of the three in one stitch take up upon both sides. The difference between the one stitch, likewise out of the cross-lying cross crochet and the usual double- stitch is threads on both sides, so that each of these simply that it is necessary to work always four rows is incrersed eight stitches, and the through the whole stitch, and in drawing number at last amounts to ninety-two. through the first loop of a stitch the thread 6th row: Likewise with black wool, continu- must not be looped round the needle, but the ing the increase as above described ; begin also latter is laid simply with the hook upon the in this row to decrease, taking in each of the thread, and so drawn through. In working four divisions, the three middle stitches in one the stitch, it makes no difference whether it is together, consequently the number remains just drawn through in this or the usual manner. the same. Crochet all the following rows like ? For the loop, crochet- stitch, work off alterthis row. After the six black rows six red , nately one common double-stitch with one loopthen four black. Work the first and last of stitch in the following manner: these with yellow silk ; then six rows of green Work into the whole stitch, and draw a loop or blue, four rows of black like the preceding, through in the usual manner ; then crochet four six rows of red, and so on. After the fourth chain upward, and after these work the last 459
