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THE
ABERGELDIE WINTER BOOK.
MLLE. RIEGO DE LA BRANCHARDIERE.
BY SPECIAL APPOINTMENT ARTISTE IN NEEDLEWORK TO H. R. H. THE PRINCESS OF WALES.
LONDON: SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, AND CO.; AND ALL THE BERLIN WAREHOUSES.
Price One Shilling.
THE ABERGELDIE WINTER BOOK.
OPERA HOOD.
IN CROCHET, ORNAMENTED WITH TATTING.
See the Frontispiece.
THE CROWN.
Commence with the White wool and the Tricot needle; make a chain of 15 stitches. The whole of the stitches should be worked very loosely.
Work 7 rows more, the same as the last, when it will be increased to 14 loops. It should measure seven inches across without stretching.
Work 9 rows of the same stitch, but omitting the increased loops at the end of the rows.
Work 8 rows more as the last. Then work a row of 1 chain and 1 plain in each loop.
Join on the Colored wool, and work a row of plain crochet all round, working two stitches to the side of each of the white rows.
For the second round--Work 4 chain, miss 1 and 1 plain. Repeat and fasten off.
Use the Floss Silk and an Embroidery Needle. Work an ordinary Cross stitch over each of the plain stitches of the Crown, putting the needle into the open spaces.
THE TATTING FLOWERS.
Commence a loop, work a double stitch; then using the largest mesh for the pearl loops, work ; draw close; leaving a small circle in the centre about the size of the 2nd mesh, and knotting the ends firmly together, cut them off.
Place the second circle over the first, and the silk one in the centre, sewing them together with the silk, then attach them to the crown about an inch from the edge of it.
Make nine Flowers for the Crown and four for the Lappets.
THE LAPPETS.
Work with the White wool and Tricot needle. Make a chain of 11 stitches.
THE EDGE--With the colored wool, work loosely a row of plain crochet all round the lappet, putting the needle into the spaces formed by the increased stitches. 2 chain and an extra plain stitch should be made at the two ends and centre of the first white row.
Make sufficient of the Scallop Trimming, page 11, to go round the Lappet, using the colored wool doubled, and the smaller mesh for the pearl loops. For the crochet row the wool is to be single.
THE JOINING--work with the Floss Silk, which had better be used double. Commence at the colored row, round the Lappet, and work a plain crochet stitch; then take out the needle and put it into the last stitch of the Scallop Trimming, taking both edges of the plain row, bring the Floss through; then work another plain stitch on the lappet, taking both edges, continue joining and working a plain stitch alternately.
Work a row of Cross stitches with the Floss silk up the centre.
Make the other Lappet the same, sew them to the crown and attach two flowers at each side.
MAZARIN CAPE.
This Cape is worked in open Crochet ornamented with Tatting, see the Frontispiece.
It will be greatly improved if Floss Silk is introduced as described in the Opera Hood. The centre should then be white with colored Trimming, but any two colors that contrast will look well, as Pearl Grey with Crimson, Mauve with Amber, or Violet with Grey.
THE DIVISIONS.
Commence with the Wool for the centre, and make 15 chain stitches.
Repeat the last 4 rows 6 times more. As the work will increase two loops every four rows there will now be 20 loops. It is intended that the work should be longer at the sides than in the centre of the division.
Work five Divisions more the same, and sew the slanting sides of them together. Three rounds of 1 chain, miss 1 and 1 plain, should be worked along the neck, then commencing at the right point work a plain row up the front, across the neck, and down the other side.
THE TRIMMING IN TATTING.
THE ROSETTE--Fill the Shuttle with the Wool and using the mesh for the pearl loops, commence a loop, work 1 double, ; draw close. Keep the Wool at the back and join it to the centre pearl.
Work another Rosette the same, and join it to the same pearl of the previous Rosette as before; then keep the Wool as the back and join to the centre pearl of the last Rosette. Repeat the last Rosette until sufficient is made for the sides and border, to which it is to be attached by sewing it with the same colored Wool.
The Rosettes down the Divisions are made in the same manner, but as they are to be smaller, only 5 pearls instead of 7 pearls are to be made for each Rosette.
THE BALLS--Take a yard of the Wool the same color as the Tatting, split it three times, and wind it round the tops of the first and second fingers, take it off the fingers and wind a piece of fine thread about three times very tightly round the middle of the wool, knotting the ends together, also tie in a piece of the wool not split, to form the thread to attach the Balls to the work; cut the wool at each end, rounding it into the shape.
Make sufficient of these Balls to go all round the Edge, placing them about two inches apart.
RETICULE MUFF.
IN TRICOT ECOSSAIS.--SEE FRONTISPIECE.
Commence the Outside with the Black wool, and make a chain of 34 stitches. See Instructions for this stitch page 28.
Repeat as the last row until 16 inches are worked; then, to shape the Flap or part which falls over the pocket, work the same stitch, but decreasing at the beginning and end of every row by taking two stitches together until it is reduced to a point.
THE LINING.
Work with the Scarlet wool and make a piece the same as the outside; when finished it is to be made round by joining the foundation row to the one before the flap is begun, so as to leave it on the outside.
For the Pocket take a piece of merino or silk the length of the muff, and about 8 inches deep double it, and sew the double part to the Lining 4 inches below the joining; then sew one edge of the silk to the joining. Wadding is to be placed between the lining and the outside, which is now to be sewn at the sides and round the flap, but the foundation row is to be joined to the other edge of the pocket. Finish with a Fur Trimming or Border, as given in the Winter Book, 1862, round the end and flap, which must be secured with a loop and button.
CROSSOVER SHAWL.
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