llustration: FIG. 498. SCALLOPS JOINED TOGETHER AT THE TOP. MATERIALS:
Fil d'Alsace D.M.C Nos. 30 to 70, Cordonnet 6 fils D.M.C Nos. 15 to 40,
or Fil a dentelle D.M.C Nos. 25 to 60[A]]

SCALLOPS WITH PICOTS (fig. 499).--Make with one shuttle: 4 double, 1
picot, * 3 double, 1 picot, 2 double, 1 picot, 2 double, 1 picot, 3
double, 1 picot, 4 double, close the ring.

[Illustration: FIG. 499. SCALLOPS WITH PICOTS. MATERIALS: Fil d'Alsace
D.M.C in balls Nos. 30 to 70, ecru or white.[A]]

Leave sufficient length of thread before beginning the next ring, for
the rings not to overlap each other = make 4 double, draw the left hand
thread through the 5th picot of the preceding ring and repeat from *.

TATTED INSERTION (fig. 500).--Make with one shuttle a ring like the
ones in fig. 499, then leaving a length of, from 5 to 10 m/m. of thread,
make a second ring = turn the work = leave the same length of thread
again, begin a third ring which you join after the 4th double, to the
5th picot of the 1st ring = turn the work after each ring is made, so
that all the upper rings represent the right side of the work and all
the lower ones the wrong.

[Illustration: FIG. 500. TATTED INSERTION. MATERIALS: Fil d'Alsace D.M.C
in balls Nos. 30 to 70, ecru or white.]

[Illustration: FIG. 501. TATTED INSERTION. MATERIALS: Fil d'Alsace D.M.C
Nos. 30 to 70, or Cordonnet 6 fils D.M.C No. 20.]

[Illustration: FIG. 502. EDGING OF TATTING AND CROCHET. MATERIALS--For
the tatting: Fil d'Alsace D.M.C in balls No. 30. For the crochet:
Cordonnet 6 fils D.M.C No. 60.]

TATTED INSERTION (fig. 501).--To be worked with two shuttles. Begin
with one thread and one shuttle and make a ring, as in figs. 499 and
500; and a second close to it; then pass the thread over the left hand,
take the second shuttle in the right hand and make 6 double on the 2nd
thread, after which you again make a ring above and one below with one
shuttle only.

EDGING OF TATTING AND CROCHET (fig. 502).--Make with one shuttle: 1
double, 1 picot, 2 double, 1 picot, 2 double, 1 picot, 2 double, 1 picot
twice as long as the others, 2 double, 1 picot, 2 double, 1 picot, 2
double, 1 picot, 2 double, 1 long picot, 1 double = close the ring =
fasten off the two threads on the wrong side with two or three stitches.

After the first knot join the next ring to the preceding one by the long
picot, and work the remainder as has been already described.

When you have a sufficient number of ring