usual method of placing chain stitches beneath the button-hole
stitches. The outlines and flowers are worked in point Russe, the dot in
knotted stitch (see No. 73, _Embroidery Instructions_.)

[Illustration: 212.--Butterfly for Handkerchief Corner.]

The initials are embroidered in raised slanting overcast stitch, and
should be worked with great regularity.

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213 _to_ 215.--_Pattern for a Couvrette in Applique_. (_see pages
576-7_.)

Materials: Messrs. Walter Evans and Co.'s embroidery cotton Nos. 24 and
30; cambric muslin; Brussels net; flesh-coloured silk; sewing silk of
the same shade; 1 skein of a darker shade; blue silk; brown silk; gold
thread.

This style of work is most effective for couvrettes or bed covers. It is
worked in cambric muslin and silk, over Brussels net.

The arabesque patterns are worked in cambric muslin, the outlines are
embroidered in overcast, and the material is cut away all round. The
medallions are made of blue silk; the figures upon them are cut out of
flesh-coloured silk, and are gummed first upon tissue-paper, then upon
the blue silk; the figures are further fastened upon the medallions in
overcast stitch with fine silk of a rather darker shade of flesh-colour.
The scarfs are cut out of bright rose-coloured silk; the quiver and
arrows and all the other attributes are worked in gold thread; the hair
in fine brown silk. The edge of the blue silk medallions is worked round
in button-hole stitch, but so as to be easily unripped when the
couvrette has to be cleaned. A border in open ladder stitch is worked
round them (see No. 81, _Embroidery Instructions_). The openings in the
centre pattern are also filled in with lace stitches.

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CROCHET

INSTRUCTIONS.

[Illustration: A Crochet-Needle]

Cotton or thread, wool or silk, with a crochet-needle, are the materials
required for working crochet. The needle, whether it be steel or bone,
must be smoothly polished. The long wooden and bone crochet-needles are
used for wool; for cotton and silk work short steel needles screwed into
a bone handle are best. The beauty of the crochet-work depends upon the
regularity of the stitches, as is the case with every other style of
needlework. The stitches must be elastic, but if too loose they look as
bad as if too tight. The size of the needle and that of the cotton or
wool must correspond; work only with