WORK COLUMN.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XIX, Issue VIII, 14 August 1897, Page 254

WORK COLUMN.

CHILD’S HOOD. Party-going for children reminds one how carefully one ought to see to their being wrapped up. Nothing forms a better covering for the head than a knitted hood, and certainly nothing can be more becoming to a little face still showing traces of babydom. The following directions for making a very pretty child’s hood will no doubt prove useful: —The tricot headpiece is commenced at the right side by 7 chain. —istrow. Raise the stitches, and work back plain.—2nd row. Increase I at the beginning and end, after the Ist stitch and before the last, and continue this increase in every row as far as the 21st, when there will be 47 stitches.—22nd to 36th rows. Plain, without increase, and in the following twentyone rows decrease in the same proportion by working the 2nd and 3rd stitches as one, and the 2 before the last in the same manner, so that the number of stitches will be again reduced to 7. The rows without increase form the top of the head piece. When this is done, 2 plain rows must be worked along the front half of the head piece, to go round the face, and these should be done rather tightly, so as to keep in the edge. The 10 lower rows of the left-hand side of the curtain (which is open at the back for nearly half its depth) are 60 stitches wide; in the 4th of these 10 rows a diminuion is made'in the centre, by taking up the 30th and 31st stitches together, in raising the row, and this decrease is continued in every alternate row (keeping the same line) throughout the whole depth of the curtain. From the 7th of these 10 rows, the edge of the curtain next the front is to be sloped, by taking the 2 stitches before the last together, in every row. When the 10 rows are completed, work another piece exactly similar to correspond, for the right-hand side of the curtain, the decreasing for the slope of the front edge from the 7th row now being at the beginning instead of the end of the rows, and in the nth row this piece must be joined to the other, by working the row along both. The entire depth of the curtain consists of 16 rows from the joining ; when completed it is to be sewn to the head-piece, and from the 13th row of the latter on each side (as far as which it goes plain) is to be somewhat

fulled in. A cord i>s yards in length, composed of chain stitches, is, with the help of a bodkin, to be run through the top of the curtain, and serves to draw it in to the requisite size and fastens the hood under the chin. Tassels of white wool finish the ends of this cord.