WORK COLUMN.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XVI, Issue XV, 11 April 1896, Page 425

WORK COLUMN.

There is, perhaps, no way in which crochet can be of more practical use, and at the same time ornamental, than as a yoke for a cotton chemise or woollen combination ; it often adds greatly to the expense to purchase such articles which can quite easily be made at home if one will only take the trouble to follow this recipe. The pattern may also be applied to any purpose for which a wheel design would be suitable. A ribbon should be run through the open insertion which encircles the neck and sleeves, it may be white or coloured, to suit the taste of the wearer, and should be finished off with butterfly bows. The wheels are connected in working the picots forming the last row of the wheels. In the yoke before me there are thirty-eight wheels around the neck, one inch in diameter, and twelve for each sleeve ; six of these, however, on each side form also a part of the thirty-eight wheels of the neck. For the wheels, begin with a ring of 8 chain, into this ring work 24 treble. Please observe to work a treble you throw the thread once only over the needle before taking up the stitch. For a double crochet, sometimes called a half-stitch, the thread is not thrown over the needle at all before taking up the stitch ; a single and slip stitch are the same, the thread being drawn through, the stitch taken up, and the loop on the needle

at the same time. For the second row on the wheel, work 1 treble into every treble in previous row with one chain between each treble. For the last row work a double crochet under a space of I chain, make a picot with 5 chain, 1 double crochet into the double crochet just made, then work another double crochet into the same space, 2 double crochet into the next space, then repeat all round from the beginning of the row ; there should then be 16 picots. The drawing shows clearly where the wheels are to be caught together in working. To fill in the spaces between the wheels in front make a ring of 5 chain, work 1 double crochet into the ring 4 chain, catch into picot of wheel 4 chain, 1 double crochet into ring; connect all the picots to the ring in the same way ; there should be eight picots in each space.