Fig. 1. Crochet Headdress.-This pretty little coiffure is suitable for morning wear, and is extremely easy to make. It is composed of purse silk, and trimmed with a coronet of bows and ends of black velvet. The back is made in the following manner :

Make a chain of 60 stitches, and work a square of treble crochet, putting 2 chain between each treble. Then, for the top of the headdress, crochet on two sides of the square, 7 chain, and loop into every other treble. Repeat this for five rows, and mount this portion of the net on a pointed wire. Ornament it with bows and ends of velvet, tastefully arranged, and finish off the back by lengths of silk looped in to form a fringe. About eight lengths of silk are required for one loop of fringe.

This might be converted into an evening headdress by making the foundation in some bright-colored silk, or gold twist, and ornamenting the front with small white ostrich feathers.

Fig. 2.-The Valois Headdress.-This consists of thick black velvet plaits, which are fastened at the back of the head, and the coronet is formed of standing loops of cherry velvet and black lace.

D'OYLEY IN CROCHET.

(See engraving, page 535.)

A SET of d'Oyleys are a very useful and ornamental production of the work-table, and the labor of working them is well repaid by this double recommendation. They form an inexpensive and appropriate present for a little mark

of kind feeling on the occasion of a wedding, when a more important offering might not be in accordance with the degree of intimacy and friendship of the parties. They are executed in the usual way of crochet-that is, the pattern is solid and the ground open. They will require to be completed by the addition of a fringe, and for this an extra row of crochet must be worked round, with about seven or nine chains in each loop, for the purpose of allowing the fringe to be knotted into every loop. They may, if pre

ferred, be finished with a narrow crochet edging; but the fringe is equally pretty and less trouble. These designs can also be executed in netting and darning. They form extremely ornamental d'Oyleys if the netting is in white, and the darning in the ingrain red cotton. A brighter effect is produced in this way; and when seen on a table, well-lighted, and the dessert tastefully arranged, they appear to great advantage, as the pattern is shown much more distinctly than when they are entirely white.

Materials.-Knitting cotton, No. 6 or 8, with a suitable hook.

THIS Counterpane is to be worked in squares, alternately close and open, arranged as in a chess-board, the open of one row joined to the close of another, and vice versa. They may be sewed together; but we prefer connecting them with a crochet-hook, one line piece by piece, and the next line to it when completed.

THE CLOSE SQUARE.-8 ch close into a round.

1st round.

5 ch, 1 sc under the chain of 8 four times, slip on two of the first set of 5 ch.

2d.- 3 sc under chain of 5, 5 ch four times.

3d.-5 sc, 3 on 3, and 2 under the chain of 5 beyond, * 5 ch, 7 sc on 3 sc and two chain at each end; * 3 times; end with 2 sc, to make the first five seven.

[N. B. All the sc stitches are taken either under the chain or under the two sides of the sc stitch; and in the following rounds, as in this, the extra stitches can only be worked at one end of the first side in beginning the round, which is finished by doing them at the other end of that side.]

4th.-11 sc worked as the 7, with 5 ch after them, four times.

5th.-15 sc.

6th.-19 sc, with 5 chain after them, four times.

7th. In this round a sc stitch is worked, as before, in every one of the former round, and 7 sc under every chain of 5.

8th (and last round).-Sc on every sc at the corners, working two in one once; and along the sides, 1 ch, miss 1, 1 de; as often as may be required.

THE OPEN SQUARE.-4 ch, close into a round, 5 ch, 1 dc, 2 ch, * four times.

2d round.-1 de, 2 ch, 1 dc, 2 ch, all under the chain of 5; the same under the chain of 2 three times over.

3d.-* under the next chain of 2, 2 dc, 3 ch, 2 de (which forms the first corner), 3 ch, 1 de under the next chain of 2, 3 ch, repeat all round.

4th.- 2 dc, 3 ch, 2 de, all under the 3 ch, between the two pairs of de; 2 ch, 1 de under

chain, 2 ch, 1 de under chain, 2 ch, four times.

5th.- 2 dc, 3 ch, 2 dc, all under 3 ch at point, 3 ch, 1 de under chain, 3 ch, 1 de under chain, 3 ch, 1 de under chain, 3 ch, * four times.

6th.- 3 dc, 3 ch, 3 dc, all under 3 ch at point; between point and point work as before, but with one repetition more.

This design is extremely prettily done in double Berlin wool, of two colors, for a couvrepieds, or baby's blanket.

NEW CROCHET STITCHES. (Especially suitable for Wool-work.)

No. I. TUNIS STITCH.

THIS is begun exactly like Princess stitch, and with the same kind of hook. You make

a chain of any given number of stitches, and work back on it, taking up each stitch and drawing the wool through, until finally you have all on the needle. Work back, by drawing the wool first through one loop only, and after that through two, till you have one only on the hook, which is the first of next row. So far the two stitches are precisely alike.

3d. Instead of putting the hook in the upright stitch, insert it under the top, or upper part, between every two upright threads; and draw

the loop through; so that at the end of the row, working from right to left, you have all the loops on the needle, the last one being made of a sort of loose thread at the end.

4th, or returning row, is like the second, but that you draw three off together at the last. Repeat these two rows alternately till sufficient is done.

This stitch is better adapted for making squares than stripes, as it works into a diamond or slanting form, but can readily be pulled into shape.

A couvre-pied made of this stitch, in small squares of two bright trenchant colors, would be very handsome, especially if each square was surrounded by a line of sc, worked in gold or maize filoselle.

No. III.-LONG-PRINCESS STITCH.

This is a pretty and novel variety of the popular "Princess" (or, as the French have called it, Tunis) crochet. The only difference in working is, that when doing the forward row, after taking up one of the front stitches, and bringing the wool through it, you draw the wool again

No. II. VELVET STITCH

is made by putting the wool twice round the hook (as for tc), and then inserting it in the stitch to be worked. Draw the wool through this, and then through all the four loops and twists of thread together, which requires a

through the stitch just made, working on it, in fact, a chain stitch. Do this to every stitch in the row, working from right to left, except the first stitch, which, as our readers are aware, is merely the last stitch of the alternate or back row and this must have a chain-stitch worked on it.

It is somewhat lighter than the ordinary Princess stitch, and done in 8-thread Berlin is quite warm enough for a couvre-pied, or baby's blanket; but the stitches not being square, it is not suitable for embroidery.

NAME FOR MARKING.

somewhat fine needle. Do a chain stitch after every stitch; and in following rows insert the

hook under this chain.

VOL. LXIV.-49

Amy.

Materials.-8-thread black and white pearl wool; blue, crimson, green, and amber 8-thread wool, and any short pieces of colors; also a coarse hook; cord and tassels.

THE cushion consists of stripes of various colors, arranged so as to harmonize with a line of pearl wool between every two, and also all round the cushion. For this you begin and end with this wool, and afterwards work two lines, to join the other two sides of the square. With the pearl wool work a chain of seventy stitches, and do one row forward and one backward, to make one pattern of this stitch.

Join

on a colored wool, and work thirty rows, making fifteen patterns; then the two pearl-wool rows again, then another color, until you have five colored stripes and six narrow pearl lines. Do a pearl line at the top and bottom.

The pattern is worked in cross-stitch, which

is done on this crochet as easily as on canvas. Use a large rug-needle and single-wool. The zigzag line is in one color, brown or black, the flower in three shades of bright color. It may be worked entirely in one set of tints, on each stripe, or each flower in a different one, according to taste. In the latter case you can use up any spare bits of wool you may have on hand; but the effect is, perhaps, better the other way. Suppose there are five stripes of the following colors-amber, blue, crimson or scarlet, green; and the design be worked on each in three shades of the color following it, only with green on one amber stripe and blue on the other, it would look very handsome. The tassels to be made of wool of the leading color.

Our second cut is the pattern of the stripe enlarged.