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

Chapter 68: [Fig. 7.]
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.

CROCHET EDGING.
[WORKED THE LONG WAY.]

[Fig. 7.]

Materials.—For Anti-Macassars, use cotton No. 8; crochet hook, No. 16. For trimming petticoats, cotton, No. 30; crochet hook, No. 19 or 20. Make a chain of the length required; or, to trim an Anti-Macassar, work a row of sc. all round.

1st. row.—Dc.

2nd.—1 dc., 1 ch., miss 1. Repeat.

3rd.—+ 7 sc., 5 ch., miss 1, 1 dc., 6 ch., miss 1, 1 dc., 7 ch., miss 1, 1 dc., 6 ch., miss 1, 1 dc. 5 ch., miss 1, +. Repeat. (In working an Anti-Macassar, do not miss any at the corners in this row, and take care that the 7 chain comes exactly at the corner. This will allow a sufficient fulness for the shell to lie flat.)

4th.—+ 5 sc. (beginning on the second of 5,) 5 ch., sc. under the first loop; * 6 ch., sc., 7 (7 sc. in last row,) 5 ch., sc. under first loop, * 6 ch., sc. under next loop, * 4 times, 5 ch., +. Repeat.

5th.—✕ 3 sc., (beginning on the 2nd of the 5,) 5 ch., sc., under the first loop; * 6 ch., sc. 7 under next loop, * 6 times, 5 ch., ✕. Repeat.

6th.—+ 1 sc. on centre of 3 in last row, 4 ch., sc. under first loop, * 5 ch., sc. under next. * twice, + 6 ch., sc. under next, + twice, † 5 ch., sc. under next, † twice, 4 ch., +. Repeat.

7th.—Begin on the sc. stitch, + 4 sc., 4 ch., slip the needle in the threads of the last sc. stitch, and draw the thread through, +. Continue thus all round. Work every stitch of the last row; the appearance is that a strong and solid edge, with dots at equal distances.

[WORKED THE SHORT WAY.]

This Edging being more suitable for trimming articles of the lady’s wardrobe than Anti-Macassars and D’oyleys, should be worked with Evans’s boar’s-head, No. 30, crochet hook No. 20; or for children’s dresses, cotton, No. 40, crochet hook, No. 22, eagle card-board gauge.

Make a chain of 17. Miss 7, dc. in 8th, 2 ch.; miss 2, dc. in 3rd, 5 ch., miss 5, dc. in last.

2nd.—Turn the work.—3 ch., 5 dc. on 5 ch., 3 ch., miss 2, 1 dc., + 3 ch., miss 1, 1 dc., + twice, 4 ch., miss none, 1 dc.

3rd.—Turn the work. 5 ch., dc. under first loop, 3 ch., dc. under the second, 3 ch., 4 dc., (the 1st on 1st ch. of the next loop,) 2 ch., miss 2, 1 dc. on the chain immediately after 5 dc., 5 ch., miss 5 dc., dc. on third of the 3 ch. at the edge.

Repeat the 2nd and 3rd rows until the required quantity is completed.