TABLE MAT.
[Fig. 3.]
Materials.—Shaded green and scarlet 8 thread Berlin wool; bone crochet hook. Make a chain of six and form it into a round.
1st Round.—12 dc.
2nd.—4 ch., miss 1 sc. in 2nd. stitch; repeat all round.
3rd.—Like 2nd.
4.—Scarlet wool; 6 ch., sc. under the loop of 4 ch.; repeat.
5th.—7 ch., sc. under 6 ch. of former round; repeat.
6th.—9 ch. worked as before.
7th.—12 ch. worked as before: fasten off the scarlet and begin with the green wool once more.
8th.—12 tc. on 12 ch. of last round, miss sc. stitch; repeat.
9th.—Sc. on 2nd. stitch, 2 ch., miss 1; repeat.
10th.—+ 1 tc., 3 ch., miss 3 +; repeat.
11th.—+ 1 tc., on tc. of last round, 4 ch. +; repeat.
12th.—+ Dc. on 4 ch. of last round, 1 ch. +; repeat.
13th.—[Scarlet wool,] 4 tc. on 4 dc. of last round, 1 ch.; repeat.
14th—+ 9 dc. on 9 stitches, of last round, 9 ch., dc. into same stitch as the last +; repeat.
15th.—6 ch., sc. in 3rd dc. of last round; repeat this twice more; 8 ch., unite into the loop formed by 9 ch. in last round; three times more, then repeat from the commencement of the 15th round.
16th.—Sc. in centre loop of 8 ch. in scallop; 1 ch., sc. into centre loop of 8 ch. in next scallop, 11 ch.; repeat.
17th.—12 ch., sc. in third stitch; repeat.
18th.—12 dc. through every chain of 12 in last round.
19th.—5 ch. unite with sc. on the point of the loop; repeat.
20th—Dc. all round, and fasten off.