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CROCHET.

4. LACE FOR POCKET-HANDKERCHIEF.

_Material--Raworth's crochet-thread No. 70_.

Work a chain the required length; d c. into every stitch of this
chain.--

_2d row_. 1 d l s, * 3 c s, miss 3; 1 d l s into fourth; repeat from
*.--

_3d row_. 12 c s, s c into d l s; * 12 c s, miss 1 d l s, s c into
second d l s; repeat from *.--

_4th row_. Begin on centre of loop of 12; * 16 c s, s c round the same
loop, close to first stitch; 12 c s, s c round centre of next loop;
repeat from *.

_5th row_. Commence on centre of 12 c s in last row; * 9 c s, s c into
top of 16 c s; 9 c s, s c into centre of 12 c s; repeat from *.--_6th
row_. 1 d c, 3 l s, 1 d c round every 9 c s in last row.--

_7th row_. Commence on centre of 3 l s; * 13 c s, s c into same stitch
to form a ring; d c round this seventeen times; 12 c s, miss 1, scallop,
s c into second scallop; repeat from *.--

_8th row_. Commence on top stitch of 17 d c, round the ring in last row;
* 8 c s, s c into same stitch; 8 c s, d c round centre of next loop of
12 c s; 8 c s, s c into centre stitch of ring; repeat from *.--

_9th row_. Begin in small loop at top of ring; 8 c s, 1 l s into same
small loop; * 5 c s, s c into fifth of 8 c s in last row; 5 c s, s c
into fourth of next loop of 8 c s; 5 c s, 1 l s into top loop; 5 c s, 1
l s into same loop; repeat from *.--

_10th row_. Begin in small loop at top of former small loop; * 11 c s, s
c into next small loop; repeat from *.--

_11th row_. Begin on centre of 11 c s; * 7 c s, 1 t l s into same
stitch; 6 c s, 1 s c into last part of t l s; 7 c s, s c into first
stitch of the row; 12 c s, s c into centre of next 11 c s *; repeat from
* to *.--

_12th row_. 9 c s, d into small loop of 6 c s; repeat.--

_13th row_. 7 c s, s c into centre of 9 c s; repeat.--

_14th row_. 7 c s, s c into centre of 7 c s; repeat.--

_15th row_. * 9 c s, 1 l s round 7 c s; 9 c s, 1 l s round same loop of
7; 9 c s, 1 s c into same loop; 10 c s, miss 1 loop of 7 c s, s c round
next loop; repeat from *.

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CROCHET.

5. ELIZABETHAN WATCH-HOOK.

_Materials--Half-an-ounce of pink four-thread Berlin wool, half-an-ounce
of white ditto, four yards of cord, and a pair of pearl watch-hooks_.

With pink work in double crochet over the cord a circle of three inches
and a half diameter; there should be 140 stitches round the edge,