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NEEDLES AND BRUSHES

An extremely pretty edging (Fig. 42) is worked at follows:

Work two rows of plain netting.

3rd row: Work three stitches into one of the previous row, one stitch, one stitch into each of the successive stitches. Repeat throughout the row.

4th row: Plain, working through the clusters of three stitches together as one stitch.

5th row: Plain.

6th row: Like third row, working the clusters of stitches between those of third row.

7th row: Like 4th.

Fig. 42.

8th row: Work into two stitches together below the clusters of sixth row, work one into all the other stitches.

9th row: Work over a mesh rather more than half an inch in width four stitches into one stitch of last row, pass over three stitches and repeat.

10th row: With the mesh first used, work one stitch into each of the four worked into one stitch, take the next loop, pass it through the centre of the three stitches