ROUND
FOOT - CUSHION.
BY MRS . JANE WEAVER.
MATERIALS. - Red woolen braid, medium- sized entirely once, and then of chalk and glass beads. silk cordon, steel beads, No. 7, glass and chalk The number of beads for the slanting scallop beads, same size, one yard and a half of thick, lines must be increased in proportion to the red woolen cord, a piece of blue cashmere, half widening of the circle. The second bead winda yard square, a strip of black velvet, one yarding must be begun where the two braid windings and a half long, four inches wide, strong gray join, (see No. 1 , ) not between them. linen, glazed calico, a little darker. Rosettes of three different sizes form the covering of this stool. These are twenty-five. in number, and consist of little rounds one inch in diameter, worked in crochet with black silk. For each of these make a chain of ten stitches, close in a ring and work round eight rows in double stitch, making the proper increase for the work to be quite flat . For the large, middle rosette, a ninth row must be worked in treble, and thus increased to an inch and a half, as clearly shown in the design . The rosettes are filled up with flat, spiral windings of red braid. which are fastened upon a firm paper ground by scallops of strong beads. Each of the eight smallest rosettes has two spiral windings ; each of the sixteen large ones has three. For the When all the rosettes are finished, they are center one, five inches in diameter, five braid windings are required. For the innermost bead joined together, as in No. 2, and with the exscallops in all the rosettes, two glass and one ception of the alternate large and small outer chalk bead must be strung alternately upon scallops, are surrounded with scallops of six strong white thread, and fastened once on the steel beads. The thread must be always carbraid, and then on the crochet. The remaining ried back through the two last beads. bead windings are alternating of glass beads ? The place where the rosettes are joined is 146
