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with a cord outside a hoop, and care must be taken to place the eyes exactly opposite each other. A little end of cane, measuring three inches in length, forms another longer eye, which is placed exactly opposite the little middle eye in the other part of the basket, and fastened to the crochet by a kind of hinge made of thread several times doubled , so that the long eye stands over the little eye, and is fastened by a little stick being pushed into the latter. The two handles are each ten inches long and made of double cane. Twist about three inches of the double cane at one end, and draw it through one of the side eyes of the basket, and bend the end back about two inches, so that it remains in the little eye. In
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the middle of the remaining long cane part, twist, likewise, three inches for the other end of the handle ; then draw the cane through the other little end eye of the handle; draw the cane then through the second little side eye of the same half of the basket, so that the end laid back touches the ends of the first eye, consequently, the twisted part of the double cord forms the eye, and the remaining cane to be twisted in the middle lies fourfold. In conclusion, cut a strip of pasteboard an inch and a quarter broad, and long enough to form a loop. A band of pastebard one inch wide, covered with cashmere, should be placed inside the basket to keep it round.
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BY MRS. JANE WEAVER.
MATERIALS. -Fine crochet cotton. For this insertion, begin with the long medallions in the middle, which, although worked separately, are complete in themselves, and are all joined together. Make a chain of sixteen stitches, crochet back, pass over the last five returning ; one half treble, two chain, one treble in the third following stitch. Repeat from twice. Two chain, one single in the last stitch of the first chain. This interrupted middle part must have an interrupted treble row all round with scallops. Work then in the half, formed by the first chain, alternately one half treble, one chain ; then in the other side, in the midde, six times alternately one half treble and one scallop of five chain, and one double in the first of these. When the row is finished , make up the six scallops that are wanting upon the first half of the medallion,
looping them separately by means of one single to the interrupted half treble. Then crochet the next stitch again with single as far as the middle of a narrow side of a medallion, and work from that the first chain for continuing the medallions, which by this means lie close to each other. Work four rows in each long side of the finished medallion lines as follows: 1st row: One double in one of the scallops ; six chain ; in the two first of these one treble, the last loop of which remains untouched upon the needle, as in tricot, in order that the two treble may be worked off separately, as required in tricot . The leaves thus formed must be repeated, so that two leaves hang close to each other, which are looped with one double to the next picot. From here, work again two leaves, and so on. 2nd row: One double between each two leaves
