rt square bugles are
threaded, with some of the beads, to form a cross in the centre of
each of the white rings; the other rings have a cross of beads only.
All the rings are sewed together, and to the mat.

The elegant fringe round the edge is formed of the long steel bugles,
connected with each other at the outer edge by a chain of 4 steel
beads. The needle is slipped down them to connect them with the rings,
and a single bead is threaded at the base of each. The side rings have
6 bugles each, placed at equal distances; the corners have 8; and 1 is
placed where every two rings are joined.

This mat would be very beautiful if worked in white and shades of
green, with gold beads and bugles.

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CANDLE LAMP MAT.

MATERIALS.--Half-ounce each of stone-colour and shaded violet,
8-thread; half-ounce of shaded amber, 4-thread Berlin Wool; 4 yards of
ordinary sized Blind or Skirt Cord; 77 small Curtain Rings, the size
measuring across five-eighths of an inch; Nos. 1 and 2 Penelope Hook:
2 bunches No. 6 Steel Beads.

With No. 1 Hook, and drab Wool, work 11 stitches d.c., over the end of
the cord; double in as small a circle as possible, unite, and work 2
stitches into every loop for three more rounds.

5th: 1 stitch into every loop.

6th: Increase 1 stitch in every 2nd loop. There must be 72 stitches in
this round.

7th: Place a pin in every 9th loop, and in this same 9th loop work
with 8-thread violet, 1 stitch; then 9 stitches drab in the next 8
loops, that is, increasing 1 stitch in about the 4th loop; repeat this
all round.

8th: Work 3 stitches violet into the 1 violet stitch; then 9 stitches
drab, working only 8 stitches in the last compartment, to commence
next row.

9th: In the last drab stitch that was not worked into, work 1 violet
stitch; then 4 more violet; then 7 drab, increasing 1 in 4th stitch;
in the last compartment make only 2 drab after the increased stitch,
in order to make 8 violet in next round.

10th: 8 violet, the 1st to come before the 5th violet of last row, and
the last to come after the 5th violet, but increasing 1 violet on the
5th stitch; then 7 drab, increasing 1 in the 4th drab stitch.

11th: All violet, increasing 1 in every 5th stitch.

12th. All violet, but without increasing, unless required.

The diameter of the mat should now measure 6 inches across, but should
it be required larger, another row of cord, or even two, will give