CROCHET INSERTION.
Materials.—Cotton, No. 30 or 34.
Very suitable for shirt fronts and similar articles.
Make a chain of the required length and work one row of dc.
2nd.—1 tc., 1 ch., miss 1; repeat.
3rd.—Dc. throughout.
4th.—A row of eyelet-holes, thus—8 ch., close in a round in the second ch.; work 3 dc. in the round thus made, drop the loop on the needle, insert the needle in both sides of 5th dc. of last row, counting from the top of the row, pick up the dropped loop, finish a stitch of dc., work three more crochet in ch. in the round; repeat from the beginning of the row, joining in every fifth stitch.
5th.—(The second side of the eyelet-holes)—7 dc. in each eyelet-hole, 1 ch. between every 2.
6th.—4 ch., dc. in 4th on the 2nd side of the first eyelet-hole; repeat.
7th.—dc.
8th.—1 tc., 1 ch., miss 1; repeat.
9th.—dc.
This insertion is remarkably strong, and very pretty, made of silk, for trimming dresses, &c.