TOILET COVER IN SQUARE CROCHET.
MATERIALS..—Brooks' Great Exhibition Prize Goat's-head Crochet Cotton,
No. 36, with a fine hook.
The pattern for this toilet cover being so elaborate, it must be
worked in cotton not coarser than that we have indicated, if intended
for an ordinary toilet cover. Worked in a coarser material, No. 8 or
12, of Brooks' Great Exhibition Prize Goat's-head Crochet Cotton, it
would make a beautiful quilt for a small bed; and in some of the
coarser sizes of the knitting cord, a large counterpane might be
worked, and from the clear appearance this material presents, would
look very rich and handsome.
Like all square crochet, this design must be worked from the
engraving. The number of foundation chain for working it is 529,
reckoning the length, or 346 for the width, if that mode of working be
preferred as less cumbersome. It will not, however, answer so well for a toilet cover, as the stitches would go the wrong way. For a
counterpane, on the contrary, it would be preferable.
TOILET COVER.
For the border of a toilet cover, we should recommend one of the
patterns in bead work, found in other parts of this volume. For the
edge of a counterpane, nothing can be handsomer than the border and
fringe of the bassinet quilt.
It should be worked with the same cotton as the centre, and the fringe
a degree coarser.
Crochet counterpanes should be laid over one of the American patent
quilted coverlets, which have recently been sold in London, and for
invalids, especially, are so extremely comfortable.
