s, pick up the picots by
crochet trebles with 3 chain stitches between them. On this first row,
crochet a second, consisting of: 2 chain, 1 picot, 2 chain, 1 single in
the treble of the 1st row. To finish the bottom part of the work, make 1
plain in the 1st picot, 3 chain; 1 plain in the 2nd picot, 3 chain, 1
plain in the 3rd picot, 1 chain, 1 plain in the 1st picot of the next
ring.
One row of single crochet serves as a footing to the edging.
[Illustration: FIG. 503. TATTED EDGING IN THREE ROWS. MATERIALS: Fil
d'Alsace D.M.C in balls Nos. 30 to 70, or Cordonnet 6 fils D.M.C Nos. 20
to 60.]
TATTED EDGING IN THREE ROWS (fig. 503).--Worked with two shuttles. The
first row is worked like fig. 495, with one shuttle. The second and
third are worked with two.
Fasten the thread of the right hand shuttle into the first picot; then
work on this thread the same number of double knots and picots as in the
1st row and join each half ring to the picot of the row before. In the
3rd row, insert 3 picots between the 8 double knots of the row above.
Here the Josephine picot may be substituted for the plain picot.
[Illustration: FIG. 504. TATTED EDGING. MATERIALS: Fil d'Alsace D.M.C in
balls Nos. 30 to 70, or Fil a dentelle D.M.C Nos. 25 to 50. COLOURS:
Ecru and Bleu-Indigo 334, or Jaune d'Ocre 667 and Rouge-Cornouille 450,
Gris-Tilleul 331 and Brun-Caroubier 356.]
TATTED EDGING (fig. 504).--Worked with two shuttles and two colours.
After making a string of rings like those in fig. 502, with Fil d'Alsace
D.M.C No. 30 ecru, fasten the blue and unbleached threads of the
respective shuttles to the middle picot. Holding the light thread in the
right hand, and the dark one laid over the left hand, work: 3 double, 1
picot, 3 double = then put the right hand thread separately through the
2 picots of the rings and continue to make: 3 double, 1 picot, 3 double.
The next row also is made with two shuttles. Hold the light thread in
the right hand; with the dark thread, laid across the left hand, make: *
4 double, 1 picot, 2 double, 1 picot, 2 double = turn the work = with
the right hand shuttle make: 6 double, put the thread through the little
picot formed above the middle picot of the rings, 6 double, close the
ring = turn the work = make with two shuttles: 2 double, 1 picot, 2
double, 1 picot, 4 double, put the light thread through the 2 blue
picots and repeat from *. The first row of crochet for the footing
consists of chain and p
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