CROCHET EDGING.
[Fig. 5.]
Like all other crochet patterns, the size depends wholly on the materials employed. For dress trimmings, No. 30 Crochet cotton, with crochet hook No. 19, will be suitable; or even finer cotton may be used. But this pattern being particularly suitable for trimming curtains and so forth, I recommend Crochet cotton, No. 10, and steel crochet hook, No. 14.
Make a chain of 15 stitches, and sc. into the 6th of these to make a loop. Work under the upper half of this loop 8 sc.; 11 ch.; form this loop as before, leaving one chain between it and the last; work 8 sc. in it; do three more with 11 ch., then one with 15, and so on throughout. When sufficient is done for the piece required, allowing for its diminishing by one-third, work 7 sc. on the other side of every round, and 1 sc. between. On the five chain between every five work 2 sc.
3rd Row.—Begun at the same place as the last 3 sc. on the three centre stitches of the first loop, 2 ch., 2 sc. on the centre stitches of the next 3 loops, with 2 chain between, 3 sc. on the last of the five, and 4 chain between; repeat.
4th. Worked the same way. 3 sc. on the 3 sc. of last row, 13 ch., 3 sc. on 3 sc. of the fifth loop, 4 sc. on 4 ch.; repeat.
5th.—1 dc., 1 ch., miss 1; repeat.
6th.—Sc. throughout.
When this is done, work with a common needle and thread three bars of button-hole stitch, to connect the three centre loops, as seen in the engraving.