be 88
stitches in the round. Do 44 more rounds, without any increase. Then
take the large mesh, and do another round. Take the small mesh, X miss
one stitch, take a stitch in the second, then one in the stitch that
was missed. X Repeat this all round.

[Illustration: SHORT PURSE, IN NETTING.]

Do four rounds of plain netting with the small mesh, then begin to
make the points. 1st point: 7 stitches; draw out the mesh, X turn the
work, and make a stitch on every one but the last; X repeat till you
come to a point.

2nd and following points, like the first, so that there are 11 in the
round.

The pattern is then to be darned with the gold thread, according to
the design we have given.

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[Illustration: BRIDAL PURSE, IN CROCHET.]

BRIDAL PURSE, IN CROCHET.

MATERIALS.--Six skeins of white crochet silk, two skeins of _ombre_
scarlet ditto, in long shades, three skeins of slate-colour, and one
of bright scarlet. Two ounces of transparent white beads, rather
larger than seed beads, four strings of gold, the same size, and a
hank of steel to match. For the garnitures (which must be entirely of
bright steel), two rings, a handsome tassel for one end, and a deep
fringe for the other. Boulton's tapered indented Crochet Hook, No. 23.

Begin by threading all the white beads on the white silk; half the
gold on the _ombre_ cerise, and the steel on the slate-coloured. What
scarlet silk is used in the square end is without beads; the few rows
at the other end, of that colour, are threaded with gold, which may be
put on afterwards.

The design of the square end consists of a spray of roses and leaves,
the former in scarlet _ombre_ with gold beads intermixed, the latter
with slate-silk and steel. The ground is composed wholly of white
beads, one being dropped on every stitch; where, therefore, the
scarlet and slate silks are worked without beads, they appear to be
_in intaglio_. A scroll of steel beads below the group is intermixed
with the white, and the top and bottom of the square end are finished
off with vandykes of plain scarlet without beads. At the bottom is an
open pattern in scarlet, to which is attached the fringe.

Begin with the plain scarlet silk, with which make a chain of 100
stitches, and close it into a round. Work one round in scarlet, using
in the end of white silk.

2nd round: In which you begin to drop on the white beads. X 2 white, 3
scarlet, X 20 times