WORK COLUMN.

New Zealand Graphic, 1 July 1899, Page 29

WORK COLUMN.

Some people are very fond of bavin their serviettes folded in a very fanciful manner, and find it a little difficult to accomplish, too, so I will give the details of what is known as the “frilled fan" pattern. If the following instructions be carried out accurately, the result will be such as shown in my last sketch. First lay the serviette opened out upon the

table, as shown in Fig. 1. Fig I.— With the right and left hands respectively, take hold of the lower edge and fold it up until 8.8. rest upon A.A. in the manner portrayed in Fig. 2. Fig. 2. —Now take the lower edge again, in exactly the same manner as the last, and fold up again, bringing D.D. upon C.C., producing Fig. 3. Fig. 3. —This must now be turned lengthwise upon the table, and plaited from the centre to both ends. The plaiting leads to Fig. 4. Fig. 4.— The top edge must now be vandyked, and then comes the frilling. The knife handle must be inserted in the opening indicated by the ar-row-head, and the linen drawn upon it until it appears through the other end. .® ® ® There is nothing that children are so really comfortable in as they are in a woollen cap, and I do not think there is any headgear quite so suitable for a small boy who is not yet past the perambulator stage, for he can lie back and be at rest in a way that is impossible in any thing that

is at all hard, moreover also if the crown be left uulined it has ventilative properties which are valuable in themselves. This little cap is worked in crochet with white zephyr wool and a bone crochet needle. Begin at the centre with a chain of five stitches and close into a loop with a slip iftitch). For the first row make 3 chain to begin, and 13 double crochet around the loop and a slip stitch on the third of the 3 chain at the beginning; for a double crotchet having a loop on the needle put the wool over, insert the needle and pull a loop through, pull the wool through two of the 3 loops on the needle, then pull the wool through the two loops on it. Second row.—A single crochet round every stitch in the last row; for a single insert and pull the wool through, work off the two stitches on the needle. Third row.—A single round the next stitch, two singles round the succeeding stitch for a widening, seven times. Fourth row.—

A single crochet around every stitch, but 2 singles around the second stitch of each widening in the last row. sth to 29th row.—Like the fourth row. 30th row. —A single around every stitch, but for the narrowing work off together as one stitch, the 2 singles which come on the 2 singles of the widening of the last row. 31st. —A single around every stitch, but for the narrowing work off together the stiteh that comes in the narrowing in the last row, and the next. 32nd to 46th row, like the last. 47th to the 53rd row.—Crochet a single on every stitch. Hereupon work from the wrong side, for the turned up edge, nine rows without widening or narrowing. The chained lines which divide the cap into sections are worked with white silk. Begin at the centre and work a row of slip stitches along the second stitch of each widening and narrowing, increasing at the corners. Edge both sides of the brim in the same way. and trim the centre and one side of the cap with a small white silk passementerie ornament with tassels.