CROCHET WINDOW CURTAIN.
MATERIALS..—Brooks' Great Exhibition Prize Goat's-head Crochet Cotton.
Penelope Hook.
May be worked from the engraving in any thickness of cotton, amounting
to the size of curtain required; the larger the curtain the thicker
the cotton should be. It likewise, in thick cotton, looks remarkably
well for bed curtains.
WINDOW CURTAIN.
MATERIALS..—Brooks' Great Exhibition Prize Goat's-head Knitting Cord,
No. 70. Penelope Hook.
The extreme elaboration of this pattern demands that the material in
which it is worked should be lighter than it need be when the design
is simpler and less rich. The use of finer materials also diminishes
the size of the pattern; we, therefore, recommend No. 70: but, of
course, it is optional to use coarser.
In No. 70 Cotton, about 6 patterns, besides the border, will make a
curtain two yards wide; but in No. 40, not more than five patterns
would be required.
The border should be worked at each edge, which may very easily be
done by working backwards from the centre of the last pattern, to the
edge. It is not necessary to work a border at the top of the curtains.
Each pattern contains 61 squares or 183 stitches; the border 45
squares or 135 stitches; reckoning from the extreme edge to the
straight line 8 squares, which occurs in every scroll between the
patterns. For 6 patterns and 2 borders, therefore, 1,368 stitches
would be required for a foundation, with the one over, always needed
in square crochet. In working the border along the bottom, care must
be taken completely to reverse it at the centre, that is, after 3
patterns, otherwise the corner would not be found to go right.
