LACE-MAKING AT HOME

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 139, 2 September 1927, Page 5

LACE-MAKING AT HOME

FILET CROCHET Lace -making is nice work —work that may be taken up or put down at any moment. Filet crochet is especially useful and dainty, and there are four ways in which you may work a filet - lace pattern. Filet crochet consists ‘of spaces of two trebles with two chain stitches between, and of blocks made up of trebles added to the treble which is the side of the space. Blocks and spaces are, of course, made on a foundation of chain crochet —three times as many chain stitches as there are squares in the block pattern added to six stitches if the second row of the pattern begins with a space. If it begins with a block four are added. If you want to make fine lace-—to decrease the size, in other words — make it like ordinary filet crochet, with trebles and chains, but work with only two trebles to a block, plus the one which forms the side of the space, and with only one chain . stitch between trebles to form spaces. When the next row of your pattern begins with a block, use three chain to turn for the first stitch of the block. When the row begins with a space, use four chain —the rule being one less of trebles than in ordinary filet crochet. For coarse filet lace make long trebles —that is to say thread three times over the work and work oft by twos—with five chain between. If a row starts with a large space, make eleven chain and work a long treble in the sixth stitch of the row below. When the space next to this large space is an ordinary space, or a block, make a chain of fourteen stitches instead of eleven for the first large space, and eight chain stitches for the pattern instead of five when an ordinary space, or a block, follows the large space. It is necessary to slip-stitch across the tops of the spaces in a return row, because each of the large spaces counts for two rows.