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The ladies' complete guide to crochet, fancy knitting, and needlework

Chapter 48: SHAMROCK-LEAF D’OYLEY. [Fig. 4.]
By Ann S. Stephens
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The manual opens with a brief history of needle arts and proceeds to clear, elementary instruction and a dictionary of technical terms, enabling readers to learn stitches and techniques quickly. It provides step-by-step guidance and patterns across crochet, fancy knitting, tatting, embroidery, Berlin wool and point lace, with designs ranging from simple edgings and collars to intricate doilies, nets, bags, scarves, infant caps, and anti-macassars. Illustrative patterns and explanations cover materials, stitches, insertions, and border treatments, aiming to teach both basic execution and more elaborate decorative motifs for domestic handiwork.

SHAMROCK-LEAF D’OYLEY.
[Fig. 4.]

Materials.—Cotton No. 16. Crochet hook, No. 17. Eagle card-board gauge. 8 ch., close for a round.

1st.—16 dc.

2nd.—✕ 7 ch., miss 1, sc. on 2nd, ✕ 8 times.

3rd.—✕ 6 ch., sc. on the centre of 7 ch., ✕; repeat all round.

4th.—Dc. all round, increasing 1 in every other stitch.

5th.—7 ch., miss 2, dc. into 3rd; turn the work, 5 ch., miss 2, dc. into 3rd, ✕ 5 times, turn the work, and repeat from the beginning of the row.

6th.—✕ sc. on the point of a scallop; 6 ch., sc. on centre of next scallop, 9 ch., ✕; repeat.

7th.—7 tc. on 6 ch., 13 ch., ✕ 7 tc. on next 6 ch., 13 ch., ✕ all round.

8th.—✕ sc. on centre of 13 ch., 26 ch., ✕ sc. on centre of next 13, 26 ch., ✕; repeat all round.

9th.—Dc. all round, increasing every other stitch.

10th.—7 ch., sc. into the same stitch, turn the work, 2 dc., 7 tc., 2 dc., in loop of 7, turn again, miss 8; repeat.

11th.—Commence with sc. on the point of the leaf, make 7 ch., sc. on the point of the next leaf, and so on all round.

12th.—✕ sc. on centre of 7 ch., 9 ch., ✕, repeat.

13th.—✕ sc. on centre of 9 ch., 7 ch., ✕ repeat.

14th.—Sc. on centre of the chain of 7, 8 ch., slip stitch into the same, 12 ch., slip into the same, 8 ch., slip into the same; turn the work; work under the 8 ch., 1 sc., 2 dc., 6 tc., 2 dc., 1 sc.; the loop of 12 work in the same way with 12 tc., the loop of 8, with 6 tc.; fasten off; miss 2 chains of 7, sc. on 3rd, 10 ch., miss 5, dc. on the 6th, 1 ch., miss 1., sc. on 2nd, 1 ch., miss 1, slip on first of 10, work all round in tc., except the first and last stitches in sc.; fasten off; miss 2 chains of 7, and repeat from the beginning of the round.

15th.—✕ sc. on the point of the single leaf, 15 ch., sc. on point of the shamrock, 15 ch., ✕; repeat.

16th.— Dc. all round, increasing in every other stitch.

17th.—✕ sc. in one stitch, 7 ch., miss 2, repeat.

18th.—✕ sc. in centre of 7 ch., 9 ch., ✕; repeat.

19th.—✕ sc. in centre of 8 ch., 9 ch., ✕; repeat.

20th.—sc. under 9 ch., ✕ 5 tc. under the same, 12 ch., sc. under the next 9 ch., ✕; repeat.

Like all other crochet work, this pattern may be greatly increased by the use of coarser materials. Worked with Evans’s boar’s-head cotton, No. 4, and a hook proportionably large, it will make a very pretty couvrette for a music-stool.