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St«r Stiteh— Crochet a chain of twenty stitches. Withont pnlting the 

 wool over first, put the needle into the second chain, thread over and draw 

 through, leaving the two loops on the needle; do the same in the next threo 

 chain successively, drawing the wool up longer and having five loops on the 

 needle, put wool over and draw through all, and make one chain to hold it*. 

 Put needle into the stitch where the five loojw are, draw thread through, 

 put the needle into the back part of last loop of the star before, draw through', 

 put the needle into the next two chain just the same, drawing tliem np 

 longer and thread over, draw through all five loops and make one chain *; 

 repeat between the stars. 



Embroidered Chair Cover ^Embroidered sHps are much used now 

 instead of chmtz covers for 

 chairs. They can be made 

 of thin woolen material, or 

 of linen. When of -wool 

 they are embroidered with 

 crewels. 



The better way to have 

 the covers fit nicely, is to 

 lay the material on the 

 chair, pin it in place to hold 

 it firmly, and lay the plaits 

 and scams just where they 

 should be, and cut the ma- 

 terial then. There are no 

 two chairs exactly alike in 

 sliape, and it will be fotind 

 far more easy to fit them in 

 this way. The seams and 

 edges are Ixinnd with braid 

 and the comers are laced 

 down with cords. The caps 

 for the arms are fastened 

 with buttons and button- 

 holes. 



Feather Ed^ed Braid 



Trimming—Fasten the 

 thread to a loop in the braid 

 — chain seven stitches, put 

 the needle in the second loop from where yon commence, draw the thread 

 through the loop and the stitch on the needle, chain four more and fasten in 

 the next second loop, then take np three more looj» by putting the needle 

 tlirongh each one, and drawing the thread through the loop, and the stitch 

 on the needle, chain four stitches and fasten as before, chain four more and 

 fasten, take np eight loops as the three were taken, chain two and fasten 

 around the last four chain stitches, chain two more and fasten in the second 

 loop from the eight taken up stitohc-s, chain two, and fasten around the next 

 four chain stitches, chain two, and fasten in second loop, then take up Ihreo 

 loops, chain two, fasten around the four chain stitches, chain two, fasten in 

 second loop, chain two, fasten around the seven stitches, chain fonr, fasten 

 in second loop, doable the braid together &x>m this loop, and on the right 



KMBROIDEBED CHAIR COVEK. 



