Materials:  Black purse silk; crimson ditto; gold thread.

The pouch is begun at the bottom, in the centre of the star.

With crimson silk make a chain of 3 stitches, and join it into a circle.  Work 4 rounds of double crochet, 2 stitches in each stitch.

5th round:  2 crimson stitches, 1 gold stitch, and so on.

6th round:  All gold stitches.

7th round:  2 crimson stitches, 2 gold, and so on.

8th round:  All crimson stitches.

9th round:  3 crimson stitches, 2 gold, &c.

10th round:  Similar to the preceding.

[Illustration:  278.—­Star for Tobacco Pouch, No. 279.]

11th round:  4 gold stitches, 3 crimson, &c.

12th round:  4 gold stitches, 2 black stitches over the 2 centre gold stitches of preceding round, &c.

13th round:  3 gold stitches, 4 black stitches, &c.

14th round:  1 gold stitch, 6 black stitches, &c.

15th round:  3 gold stitches, 4 black stitches, &c.

16th round:  4 gold stitches, 2 black stitches, &c.

17th round:  4 gold stitches, 2 over the black stitches of preceding round, and 1 on either side, 4 crimson stitches, &c.

18th round:  2 gold stitches over the centre ones of preceding round, 7 crimson stitches, &c.

Now work 4 plain crimson rounds, and begin the pattern from No. 279.  The centre is crimson, and the pattern is black and gold.  The border round the top is of the same colours.

[Illustration:  279.—­Tobacco Pouch.]

Complete the work by 2 rounds of open treble crochet, and 1 round of gold scallops.

In the open rounds pass a double cord of black silk, finished off with small balls of black silk gimp and gold; and on either side of the pouch fasten one of these same balls with two tassels, one crimson and one black.  The pouch is lined with white kid.

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280 and 281.—­Crochet Rosettes.

Material:  Messrs. Walter Evans and Co.’s crochet cotton No. 4, 24, or 40.

These rosettes are suitable for trimming cuffs, collars, and bodices, or for making couvrettes, according to the size of the cotton with which they are worked.

[Illustration:  280.—­Crochet Rosette.]

280.—­Make a foundation chain of 22 chain; join them into a circle and work the 1st round; 44 double.

2nd round:  * 7 chain, missing 3 stitches of the preceding round under them, 1 double; repeat 10 times more from *.

3rd round:  1 slip stitch in the first 4 stitches of the next scallop, * 5 chain, miss the last and work back on the other 4, 1 double, 1 treble, 1 long treble, 1 double long treble (throw the cotton 3 times round the needle), 1 slip stitch in the middle stitch of the next scallop; repeat 10 times more from *.  Work a wheel in the centre of the rosette, which is ornamented with a circle of chain stitch, as can be seen in illustration; take up one thread of the wheel with every other chain stitch.