WORK COLUMN.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XVI, Issue II, 11 January 1896, Page 46

WORK COLUMN.

SILK CROCHET. All the old patterns of crocheted lace are coming to the fore, and very pretty they are when worked in gold cream silk, quite handsome enough to put on any kind of gown. The following are two receipts for making what used to be called the ‘ old pine-apple ’ pattern which is perhaps more effective than any other design. No I. The foundation or straight-edge is made first of 15 chain, turn, make a treble shell, 5 chain, another shell, 1 treble, turn, 3 chain, shell in shell, 5 chain, shell in shell, turn, 3 chain, shell in shell, 5 chain, shell in shell, 1 treble. Continue this foundation to the length of lace you want to make, allowing 19 shells for each complete scollop. The term ’shell ’ forms an

abbreviation, and if 1 writ large ’ it means 3 treble, 2 chain, 3 treble, all in the same stitch of the foundation chain. The thread need not be broken, but some very good workers prefer to break it, and start fresh for the pines. Make 3 chain, treble shell, 4 chain, shell, 4 chain, shell, turn, 3 chain, shell. 4 chain, 9 double treble. 4 chain, shell, turn, 3 chain, shell, 1 single crochet, 3 chain, repeat 6 times, 4 chain, shell. Decrease the number of holes in working across each time till the figure is completed. Make another figure like the first on the right hand of the first. Each time you go

across on the second figure, make a row on the connecting fan. The fan is first a shell : this is filled with 7 double crochet, this in turn with 1 treble, 3 chain, in each stitch of the preceding row, turn, fill each hole with six single crochet. When the end of the scollop is reached, make one row of double guipure stitch, which brings the worker down again to the foundation or straight-edge, ready to begin on another scollop. No. 2 design. In this lace the pines are made first, and the scollop and straight-edge put on to complete the pattern. The pines or figures are made like those in No. 1, making the second figure from the right of the first, and the third from the right of the preceding one. The scollop edge has two rows of double guipure stitches. The straight-edge is made of 3 chain, 1 treble. Make an extra row over the first of the preceding rows to make the edge straight. Fill the holes of this extra row with 5 single crochet.