LAMP - MAT . BY MRS . JANE WEAVER.
MATERIALS -Pasteboard, black velvet one ; mencing at the middle and fastened together on inch broad , scarlet cord or braid, pearl beads, the wrong side with stitches of red silk. When chalk-white beads, steel beads, and sewing-silk about half the foundation is finished, place it The illustration is considerably reduced in upon the covered pasteboard, putting the middle size ; it represents a mat ten inches in diameter to the middle as smoothly and evenly as possi Cut a thin pasteboard the required size. It ble, joining it underneath and to the pasteboard must not be too stiff for a needle to pass through.with almost invisible stitches as far as the velvet Fasten round the outer edge a black velvet rib - edge. When all the cord is wound round, place bon about an inch broad, and turn it over upon a looping of cord, as shown in the design, and the inside in little folds, as flat as possible, as fasten it at the places where the cord crosses, represented in the design. The foundation con- and at the upper middle. Ornament it with a sists of thick cord wound round and round , com- trimming of beads, according to design.
CROCHET CURTAIN - BAND .
BY MRS . JANE WEAVER. WORK with fine cotton piping- cord . Our Work alternately one shell, beginning with model represents stripes of a double kind of eleven chain, and, as in tricot, sticking always shell pattern Commence with a line of fifty in one stitch ; collect ten stitch-loops loosely three shells placed at great and small distances. upon the needle, draw them all through together 298
