. Godey's lady's book . ochet-worker amongits young lady members who excels in the exe-cution of this particular work. If one under-takes the crochet, and another, who may beequally skilful in embroidery, combines herlabor in a piece of work of this description, thecompletion of an elegant and useful article ofdress will very quickly be the result. Ourillustration shows in what manner the crochetand embroidery are arranged, they being alter-nated to any depth which may be pattern of the embroidery is in the cut-outstyle, the flowers having the line which sur-rounds them worked in
. Godey's lady's book . ochet-worker amongits young lady members who excels in the exe-cution of this particular work. If one under-takes the crochet, and another, who may beequally skilful in embroidery, combines herlabor in a piece of work of this description, thecompletion of an elegant and useful article ofdress will very quickly be the result. Ourillustration shows in what manner the crochetand embroidery are arranged, they being alter-nated to any depth which may be pattern of the embroidery is in the cut-outstyle, the flowers having the line which sur-rounds them worked in buttonhole-stitch ; allthe other parts are cut out and sewn over. Thecrochet should be worked in a rather coarse WORK DEPARTMENT. 89 cotton, as it will be stronger and more rows of the embroidery, and three of thecrochet will form a handsome trimming for a skirt; and the same style, but worked a littlefiner, will be found extremely ornamental forthe fronts of night-dresses and other articles. 90 godeys ladys book and magazine. BLANKET INITIALS. There is one class ofdomestic necessarieswhich, even in the best-regulated homes, toooften escapes the atten-tion of the mistress of thefamily, and for which theinterests of the house-hold are sometimes tax-ed in payment of theoversight. The blank-ets of a house are fre-quently left without anymark, and when theseare sent out to the laun-dress of the scouringworks, mistakes are eas-ily made in restoring theright article to its rightproprietor. To preventthese exchanges of pro-perty, every blanketshould be marked inbold and striking cha-racters ; and, with a viewof facilitating what wemust consider a neces-sary precaution, wehaveintroduced a couple ofdesigns of blanket ini-tials, as samples of astyle which may at oncestrike the eye and markthe, ownership. Theseletters being interwovenshould be worked inBerlin wool, of two dif-ferent colors, red andblue, both being outline having beentraced in the B
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