Fig. 1.-Steel color poplin suit, trimmed with Azurline blue silk. Steel color straw hat, bound with blue, and having a blue thistle feather in front. Fig. 2.-Light green silk dress. Black silk sacque, braided with green cord. Fig. 3.-Light cloth jacket, white pants, crimson neck-tie, and Leghorn hat. Materials.-Black cloth; violet, green, crimson, and blue silks; gold thread, No. 3; black and ruby cut beads. The butterfly is to be worked in chain-stitch, with the various shaded silks: the upper wings in green-the under in crimson, with blue spots. The body in lilac. On each side of the body a cut black bead may be put in every little loop. Very pretty tidies and cushion covers are now made on mosquito net, which is a very useful manufacture as a groundwork on which to work ornamental patterns in darning and fancy stitches. The pattern given is for this purpose, and when worked will be found to have a very lacy and good effect. The stars are worked in cottons of different degrees of coarseness, and the lines which form the stars are traced in the coarsest kind. The interiors of the points are filled in with different kinds of lace stitches, which are very easily executed on this coarse fabric, such as sewing lines of the net over, crossing in diamonds, and filling in with stars-but which have a very pretty effect introduced in this manner. The shape indicated by the black ground in the illustration is formed by running a line, in coarse cotton, across the net in the different directions. This gives a novelty to the style of work. To complete the tidy, a light lace in crochet, or a rich knotted fringe, should be carried all round. This will be found a very showy and pretty way of working on this net. |