MUFF CROCHETED IN IMITATION OF FUR . BY MRS. JANE WEAVER.
THE following articles crocheted in imitation fur are recommended for the warm winter toilets of young girls, as they are not expensive. Detail No. 14, gives the stitch in which the muff is crocheted. With a fine bone-hook, No. 12, bell gauge, and the gray wool, single Berlin, ( of which you require 6 ounces, ) make a chain of 78 stitches. 1st row: DC (double crochet, ) at the end 1 ch. 2nd row: 1 de in the first de, taking up the back of the loop, which is done throughout the work, take up the back of the 2nd loop, draw the wool through, pass the wool round the needle, take up the same loop again, making 3 loops on the needle in this one stitch, draw the NO. 1. MUFF (CROTCHETED IN IMITATION OF FUR.) wool through these 3, then through the 2 on the needle ; take up the whole of this row in this , a row of double crochet, then a row of pattern, manner. 3rd row: Plain de worked from the always working a ch stitch at the end of each row. Work about 8 inches of this crochet for the width of the body. Sew it together, and stuff it with wadding covered with silk. The tail is worked separately, and is crocheted in looped crochet. Make a ch of 20. 1st row: De. 2nd row : Take up the back of the loop, pass the wool three times round a mesh one inch and a quarter wide, or your 2 fingers of the left hand,
NO. la. DETAIL OF NO. 1. back of the loop as before. Repeat the 2nd and 3rd row. Work a piece wide enough for your muff, then make it up ; for this you require blue silk in the piece, two pair of black tassels, some blue ribbon to run in the runner, and a sheet of wadding. Lay your wadding the size of the piece of crochet you have worked, cover it on both sides with silk, then sew together ; make a slot at each outer edge, sew up the piece of crochet, place it over the silk, run the edges of the crochet to the extreme edge of the slot, then pass your ribbon in ; add the tassels by the join. NO. 2. THE BOA. This is also crocheted in the same stitch as the muff. You require five steel knitting-needles, No. 12, for the head as it is knitted, 2 jet buttons for the eyes. For the length of the body make a chain of 117 stitches. Commence with 466
NO. 2. BOA TO MATCH NO. 1.
put the needle under these loops, loop the wool over, then take up the st again, draw through, and draw through the 2 on the needle ; work the row in this manner. Work these 2 rows until you have ten rows of loops ; then work 2 more rows, decreasing one stitch on each side row, cut the loops in the middle and comb them with a fine comb. Sew the tail together, then to the body.
