Dot and Dash Runner Pattern #7280

MATERIALS:
Use one of the following threads—
J. & P. Coats Knit-Cro-Sheen, 3 balls of White, Ecru, or any color.
Clark's O.N.T. Lustersheen, 2 skeins of White or Ecru, or 3 skeins of any color.
Milward's steel crochet hook No. 8 or 9.

Gauge: 4 sps make 1 inch; 4 rows make 1 inch.

Completed runner measures 14 x 36 inches.

Starting at one narrow end, making a chain 20 inches long (12 ch sts to 1 inch). 1st row: D c in 8th ch from hook, * ch 2, skip 2 ch, d c in next ch. Repeat from * across until 57 sps in all are made. Cut off remaining chain. Ch 5, turn. 2nd row: D c in next d c (1 sp), 2 d c in next sp, d c in next d c (1 bl). Ch 2, d c in next d c (another sp). Make (1 bl, 1 sp) 5 times; make 10 more sps over sps below; (1 bl, 1 sp) 6 times; make 10 more sps; (1 bl, 1 sp) 6 times. Ch 5, turn. 3rd row: 2 sps, * (1 bl, 1 sp) 5 times; 11 bls, 1 sp. Repeat from * once more, (1 bl, 1 sp) 5 times; 1 more sp. Ch 5, turn. Repeat 2nd and 3rd rows alternately 4 more times. 12th row: Same as 2nd row. 13th to 23rd rows incl: 2 sps, (1 bl, 1 sp) 5 times; 34 more sps; (1 bl, 1 sp) 5 times; 1 more sp. Ch 5, turn. 24th row: (1 sp, 1 bl) 6 times, 33 sps, (1 bl, 1 sp) 6 times. Ch 5, turn. 25th row: 2 sps, (1 bl, 1 sp) 5 times; 34 sps; (1 bl, 1 sp) 5 times; 1 more sp. Ch 5, turn. Repeat 24th and 25th rows alternately 4 times. 34th row: Same as 24th row. Repeat 13th to 34th rows incl. 4 more times, and 13th to 23rd rows incl. once. Now repeat 2nd to 12th rows incl. once. Last row: Make sp over each bl and over each sp across to correspond with other end. Fasten off.