h the dark colour and make: * 4
double, 1 picot, 8 double, 1 picot, 4 double, close the ring. With both
shuttles, the light colour in the left hand: 4 double, 1 picot, 2
double, 1 picot, 2 double, 1 picot, 4 double, put the right hand thread
through the picot of the first circle; then add: 4 double, 1 picot, 2
double, 1 picot, 2 double, 1 picot, 4 double.

With the shuttle, filled with the dark colour: 5 double, pass the thread
through the picot of the first ring, make 8 double, 1 picot, 5 double,
close the ring. Then, leaving a short length of thread between, make: 4
double, put the thread through the picot of the preceding ring, 8
double, 1 picot, 4 double, close the ring **; then repeat from * to **.

When you have thus made two equal lengths, join them together with
crochet, using a thread two numbers finer than the tatting thread; if
the latter for instance was Fil d'Alsace No. 30, you would take No. 50
of the same material for the crochet--1 plain in the 1st picot, 5 chain,
1 plain in the middle picot, 5 chain, 1 plain in the 3rd and 1st picot =
then, over 5 chain: 1 sextuple cluster stitch (fig. 426), 5 chain.

In the row on the opposite side of the tatting, take out the crochet
needle at the 3rd chain stitch and put it in from beneath into the
corresponding stitch of the opposite row; in this manner join the two
insertions together so as to complete the pattern.

[Illustration: FIG. 507. INSERTION OF TATTING AND CROCHET.
MATERIALS--For the tatting: Fil d'Alsace D.M.C in balls Nos. 30 to 70,
or Cordonnet 6 fils D.M.C Nos. 25 to 50, ecru or white.[A] For the
crochet: The same materials, but two numbers finer.]

[Illustration: FIG. 508. WORKING DETAIL OF FIG. 507.]

INSERTION OF TATTING AND CROCHET (figs. 507 and 508).--Worked with one
shuttle. The tatting thread should be two numbers coarser than the
crochet thread. Begin with 2 strings of half rings consisting of: 4
short picots and 3 long. Leave a length of thread between, equal to the
diameter of the ring.

When the two strings of half rings are finished, crochet with the fine
thread: 6 plain over each length of thread between, and at the base of
the scallops.

2nd row--5 chain, 1 plain in the 4th plain of the 1st row.

In the row that connects the two rows of tatting, put the 3rd chain
stitch into the corresponding stitch of the opposite row.

For the outside edge make: 1 plain in the 1st short picot, 8 chain *, 1
treble in the 2nd short picot, 7 ch