14th Round. stitches in each.

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38th Round, round mesh.. - Net stitches together, missing the first 3, netting the 3 next, and returning to the missed 3, continue all round.

39th Round, round mesh.—1 stitch in each.

40th Round, and 4 succeeding Rounds. -The same.

The top part of the cover is now netted, and there remain but the points to net.

With round mesh net 13 stitches, and instead of continuing the round, return on the 13 stitches, missing the last. Continue backwards and forwards on these, always missing the last till you have but one stitch left on the mesh. Cut the cotton and fasten the end; take up the next 13 stitches, and make another point, and continue the same all round the cover.

Now commence the darning. Thread the rug needle with green wool, and insert it in the 5th mesh from the centre (which is where the two knots are visible in one mesh), and darn 3 meshes upwards to the right, filling the meshes closely with wool; then in a line with the first of these 3 and upwards to the left darn 2 meshes, each separately, in order that all the darning may lean to the right.

Having done this there will be one mesh left in the middle of the green vandyke, which darn in plum colour. Darn 6 of these round the centre of the cover. Between the lower points of each vandyke there will be 3 diamonds, darn the middle one in dark blue.

Now in 12th mesh (where the 3 knots are seen in one mesh), with scarlet darn a diamond of 4 meshes to the right; do the same in every 5th mesh all round.

As before, there will be 3 vacant meshes between the lower points of each scarlet diamond, the centre one of

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which fill with dark blue, and above the dark blue spot darn a vandyke of 4 meshes in claret.

In the 36th round of netting darn close diamonds of 9 meshes (leaving a space of 3 meshes between the lower points of each), of different colours, in the following order: peach, green, plum, yellow, claret, dark blue, pink, light blue. There are 33 diamonds required in the round; it will therefore be necessary to work these 8 colours 4 times, which will leave one still vacant; this one may be darned in scarlet.

Miss 3 meshes upwards from one of these closely darned diamonds, and darn 6 meshes to the right, then 4 meshes in an opposite direction from each point of the 6 already darned, thus three sides of a diamond are formed; complete the 4th side by darning 6 meshes.

There will be 17 diamonds, which may be darned thus:-yellow, dark blue, scarlet, green, peach, claret, light blue, pink. Repeat these colours twice, which will leave one to do; this may done in plum colour.

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This will leave an open diamond of 16 meshes (4 each way), the centre 4 of which darn in 2 colours, the two opposite each other in one, and the other two in a good contrasting colour.

There is always a slight irregularity in round netting, which will cause the first diamond to appear scarcely even with the last. This, however, cannot be avoided, and is not discernible except on very close examination, and does not at all affect its appearance when on the table. It will also be found necessary to lessen the space between the open diamonds, one mesh in two instances, as if there were two more meshes it would cause an irregularity in the close diamonds.

The top part of the cover is now finished, and the points only remain to be darned.

Between each point darn a close diamond of 9 meshes, the lower point of which will hide the fastening of cotton at the commencement of the netted point.

6th Round.-Small mesh, 1 stitch in each, missing 1 stitch, netting the next, and returning to the missed one all round.

7th Round.-Small mesh, 1 stitch in each.

Net 12 rounds more, the same as 7th round.

20th Round.-Flat mesh, net 2 stitches in each.

21st Round.—Small mesh, same as 6th round.

22nd and 23rd Rounds.-Small mesh, 1 stitch in each.

Fasten off, cut away the foundation, draw up the stitches tightly, and with the Mecklenburgh No. 5 darn the first round of meshes closely. Then in the 13 rounds of small netting darn 1 line of diamonds the entire depth of small netting, which will be 13 diamonds, with Mecklenburgh No. 5, miss 6 meshes, darn the 7th line of diamonds; continue thus all round the D'Oyley. Now miss 2 meshes from the top of a darned line, and darn 4 with the same thread. Miss 3 meshes downward from this, and darn 4 more. Miss 3 again and darn 4, repeat all round.

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Thus there will be 3 darned diamonds of 4 meshes between every darned line of diamonds. Thread a needle with No. 5, and insert it in the mesh at the right-hand corner of the centre darned diamond, pass a bead into the mesh and slip the needle under the thread to the next mesh; before putting in another bead, take a back stitch over the thread under which you just passed the needle, then slip on another bead, and so on all round the close diamonds.

Now with No. 80 do a row of loose buttonhole stitch all round the beads, taking each stitch in a bead mesh; then do another row of buttonhole stitches in the same meshes, reversing the stitches, taking one in each mesh opposite the one already done, and passing the needle every time through the loop made in the last row. This will fill the entire space between the darned lines.

Darn every mesh of the 21st round with No. 5 closely, and in the last row knot a fringe about an inch in depth.

Care must be taken that all the darning runs the same way, and the beads may be omitted if desired.

ON a foundation of 28 stitches net one round with wide mesh.

2nd Round.-Small mesh, one in each. 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th.-Same as 2nd. 7th Round.-Large mesh, 2 in each. 8th Round.-Small mesh, 1 in each. 9th and 10th Rounds.-Same as 8th. Fasten the thread, and with the wool cover the entire outside round of meshes with loosely-wrought buttonhole stitches. This forms the first round of the pocket.

On the same foundation, with wide mesh, net 1 plain round.

2nd Round.-Wide meshes, 2 stitch in each.

3rd Round. Small mesh, net stitches together all round.

4th Round.-Small mesh, 1 in each. Do. 6 more rounds the same.

11th Round.-Small mesh, stitches in each.

12th Round.-Small mesh, 1 in each. 13th, 14th, 15th, and 16th Rounds.Small mesh, 1 stitch in each. Fasten off and work the edge as before.