d draw it
through. Here you must be careful to observe, in the first instance,
that the second part which is now to be joined to the square, should
always remain on the left side of the square and secondly, that the
thread with which you join the two parts together, should lie to the
left and be drawn through, from the wrong side to the right. Having now
got 7 Tunisian stitches on the needle, make 18 double rows, and join
the last stitch of each row to a stitch of the square.

When these rows are finished, you proceed to decrease on the right till
you have only 2 stitches left; and then again to increase as at the
beginning of the stripe. At each increase, after each double row you
must pass the thread through the corresponding stitch opposite of the
same row. When you have again got 7 stitches on the needle, join them as
before to the square. Work round the 4 sides of the square in this
manner and when you come to the last decrease, join the stitches to
those of the first increase, and fasten off. The next stripes are to be
worked in the same way; they may be made either wider or narrower,
plain, or ornamented with a cross stitch pattern which you work upon
them.

[Illustration: FIG. 477. PATTERN OF COUNTERPANE WORKED IN STRIPES.

MATERIALS: Coton pour crochet D.M.C Nos. 6 to 12, Coton a tricoter D.M.C
Nos. 6 to 14, or Cordonnet 6 fils D.M.C No. 15.[A]]

PATTERN OF COUNTERPANE WORKED IN STRIPES (fig. 477).--This is intended
for a child's coverlet and is worked in pale blue, Bleu-Indigo 334, and
white; the stripes and the lace border, in white, the setting, partly in
white, partly in blue.

For the first stripe, make a foundation chain of 26 stitches; then
counting back, draw the needle through the 6th and 7th chain stitches,
drawing up all the three loops together = 2 chain, then put the needle
again through 2 chain stitches, draw up the 3 loops together = 2 chain
and so on.

Coming back, make the loop of the first stitch and that of the second on
the chain stitches of the preceding row = begin every row with 3 chain,
which form picots along the edge of the stripe; when the stripes are
finished, take a blue thread and make 1 plain stitch on each picot and 3
chain.

This blue row is followed by a white one, worked in cluster stitch, fig.
426, with 2 chain stitches between every 2 clusters.

Then follows another blue row of one plain stitch on each chain stitch
of the previous row. The second blue row consists