. Fancy work for pleasure and profit. OCHETED SKIRT. The design shown here is one of the prettiest, as well as the best fittingwe have seen. As it is fitted to the figure there is no extra fullness aboutthe hips and waist, and it is light and warm. Materials: Germantown wool—4skeins of blue and 4 of drab; coarsetricot needle. Yoke—Make a chain of 55 stitches;* with the blue and work 3 rows inafghan-stitch. Next work one rowwith drab to the eighth stitch from theend of the row, which forms the topof skirt, then one row to the 19th stitchfrom the top in drab. Repeat from *until there are 33 stri
. Fancy work for pleasure and profit. OCHETED SKIRT. The design shown here is one of the prettiest, as well as the best fittingwe have seen. As it is fitted to the figure there is no extra fullness aboutthe hips and waist, and it is light and warm. Materials: Germantown wool—4skeins of blue and 4 of drab; coarsetricot needle. Yoke—Make a chain of 55 stitches;* with the blue and work 3 rows inafghan-stitch. Next work one rowwith drab to the eighth stitch from theend of the row, which forms the topof skirt, then one row to the 19th stitchfrom the top in drab. Repeat from *until there are 33 stripes of drab. Fin-ish with 3 rows of blue. Flounce — Make a chain of 75stitches; * with drab wool; work 8 rows;then work 2 with blue, 2 drab, 2 blueand 2 drab. Next work 8 rows withFIG. 337. blue, 2 drab, 2 blue, 2 drab and 2 blue. Repeat from * until you have 6 broad stripes of drab and 6 of the blue, andthen join together. In making the flounce, the following directions mustbe exactly followed: (Seepage 382 for afghan stitch.). KNITTING AND CROCHETING. 395 1st row, plain tficot; after that make i chain at beginning of each rowto form an extra stitch, and leave off a stitch at end of each row, keepingthe same number of stitches all the time, but giving the flounce a biasappearance. Fasten yoke to flounce with chain of 5 stitches, caught firstin the flounce and then to the yoke. Through the openings made by these chains of 5, a blue ribbon No. 7,may be run and tied in a bow. At the waist finish off the skirt with one row in dc, putting I Through this a cord and tassel may be run. The opening atback of yoke may be finished with a scallop. Border of Flounce—i row in drab shells of 5 stitches, 2 rows of blue, 2of brown and 3 of blue; the last blue row having 6 stitches in each shell. INFANTS BOOT: KNITTING. Materials: Three balls knitting silk and three skeins wash twistembroidery silk, four steel knitting needles No 18, and a yard of narrowribbon. Commence at t
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