Tippet of Chinchilla Wool.
By Mrs. Jane Weaver.
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Materials.---5 oz. Chinchilla zephyr (single); fine crochet hook.
Make a chain seven and a half inches long. Work backward and forward in the manner shown by design below, which shows the exact mode of working the stitch. Observe to work the loops always on the same side, doing one row of plain crochet between every row of loops. Continue until the piece is of the required length, which must be determined by the age of the child, then join it lengthwise, and finish with the tassels of the same wool.
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Bible Book-Mark
By Mademoiselle Roche
Peterson's Magazine. January, 1862
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This little article can be worked either on velvet or watered ribbon. It is a very pretty affair for a Christmas or New Year's gift.
If the velvet is preferred, the design should be executed with fine gold thread; but if the ribbon, gold-colored silk has a very good effect
The outline of the cross is a thick line of sewing over, with the stitches worked in the same manner as the branches in muslin embroidery.
Sometimes the cross is left with only the outline, as given in the illustration, or it may be filled up with slanting stitches, meeting up the center; but all emanating from the middle, where the two pieces form a square.
The rays are worked solid, the stitches taking the same direction as the ends of each, producing a circular effect.
When the cross is worked on ribbon, the ends are turned up at the back, so as to hide the stitches; but velvet is too thick to be finished in this way, and therefore will require lining.
A gold fringe should be added to the ends to complete this Book-Mark.
The pattern is one so easy that anybody can work it.