1st round (small mesh). 1 stitch in every stitch of the foundation.

2nd:  The same.

3rd:  2 stitches in every one of the previous round.

4th:  A stitch in every one of the last round.

5th:  X 2 stitches in the first, and one in the second, X 8 times.

6th:  A stitch in every stitch.

7th:  Increase eight stitches in the round, by doing two in one eight times, taking care that the stitch increased is the one which precedes the increased stitch of the last augmented round.

8th:  Like 6th.

9th:  Like 7th.

10th, 12th, 14th, 16th, 18th, 20th, 22nd:  Like 6th.

The intermediate rounds like the 7th.  There ought now to be 88 stitches in the round.  Do 44 more rounds, without any increase.  Then take the large mesh, and do another round.  Take the small mesh, X miss one stitch, take a stitch in the second, then one in the stitch that was missed.  X Repeat this all round.

[Illustration:  SHORT PURSE, IN NETTING.]

Do four rounds of plain netting with the small mesh, then begin to make the points. 1st point:  7 stitches; draw out the mesh, X turn the work, and make a stitch on every one but the last; X repeat till you come to a point.

2nd and following points, like the first, so that there are 11 in the round.

The pattern is then to be darned with the gold thread, according to the design we have given.

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[Illustration:  BRIDAL PURSE, IN CROCHET.]

BRIDAL PURSE, IN CROCHET.

MATERIALS.—­Six skeins of white crochet silk, two skeins of ombre scarlet ditto, in long shades, three skeins of slate-colour, and one of bright scarlet.  Two ounces of transparent white beads, rather larger than seed beads, four strings of gold, the same size, and a hank of steel to match.  For the garnitures (which must be entirely of bright steel), two rings, a handsome tassel for one end, and a deep fringe for the other.  Boulton’s tapered indented Crochet Hook, No. 23.

Begin by threading all the white beads on the white silk; half the gold on the ombre cerise, and the steel on the slate-coloured.  What scarlet silk is used in the square end is without beads; the few rows at the other end, of that colour, are threaded with gold, which may be put on afterwards.

The design of the square end consists of a spray of roses and leaves, the former in scarlet ombre with gold beads intermixed, the latter with slate-silk and steel.  The ground is composed wholly of white beads, one being dropped on every stitch; where, therefore, the scarlet and slate silks are worked without beads, they appear to be in intaglio.  A scroll of steel beads below the group is intermixed with the white, and the top and bottom of the square end are finished off with vandykes of plain scarlet without beads.  At the bottom is an open pattern in scarlet, to which is attached the fringe.