ow until you have 83
loops on your mesh; then decrease one at the end of every row
until you have only one left; then fasten off; then darn it with
Embroidering Cotton, No. 40, according to the engraving, always taking
care that there are the same number of threads in every square, and
that the threads all run the same way, making as few breaks in the
cotton as possible; in fastening off, or beginning again, always let
it be on the under-side, that the ends may not be seen. Then for the
under-side of the cushion, make another piece exactly similar to the
other one in size, but with a thicker cotton, No. 30. The two pieces
must then be joined together, and placed upon a cushion stuffed with
wool and covered with a dark purple, crimson, or green velvet; the
whole afterwards finished with a thick twisted cord in two colours,
with massive tassels at the corners to match.

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THE PINE COUVRETTE, FOR A MUSIC STOOL, IN CROCHET.

MATERIALS.--Eight reels of Brooks' Goat's-head Crochet Cotton, No. 8;
crochet hook, No. 18.

This couvrette is begun in the centre, and worked round and round, the
thread never being broken off but when it is so mentioned in the
receipt.

Make a chain of 6; close it into a round, on which do 8 s.c. stitches.

2nd round: X 1 d.c. under a stitch (taking up both sides of the
chain), 2 ch., miss none, X 8 times. Close the round with a slip
stitch on the first d.c.

3rd: 1 s.c. on every chain stitch, and 2 s.c. on every d.c. in the
round.

4th: 3 ch., twist them, and continue as a d.c. stitch; X 3 ch., miss
3, 3 d.c., all on the second of the 2 s.c. worked on one in last row,
X 7 times; 3 ch., miss 3, 2 d.c. on last stitch of last row; slip on
the top of the three-twisted chain, which completes the round.

5th: Begin this and all succeeding rounds with a d.c. stitch, made of
3 ch., X ch., miss 3 ch., 2 d.c. on first d.c., 1 on next, 2 on next,
X 7 times; 3 ch., miss 3, 2 d.c. on 1 d.c., 1 d.c. on next; slip on
top of the 3 chain that began the round.

6th: Worked exactly like 5th, with 2 d.c. on the first and last of
every 5, and 1 on each of the intermediate, so that the round consists
of 8 sides, of 7 d.c. each, divided by a chain of three.

7th: The same, with 10 d.c. over the 7.

8th: The same, with 12 d.c. over the 10.

9th: 3 ch., twist it into a d.c. stitch, X 3 more chain, 2 d.c. in the
first of 12, 4 d.c. in next 4, 3 ch., miss 2, 4 d.c.