Crocheted Edging Pattern #26

Remember that you need a crochet thread of a size, texture, lustre, and color or shaded color right for the purpose. The thread should be of a quality to wear so that it will not break and make your work valueless. The color must be Boilfast so that innumerable washings will not fade it. These necessities to good work are found in both Clark's O.N.T. and J. & P. Coats Threads.

Mercerized Crochet is made in sizes 1 to 100 in white, and 1 to 70 in ecru; Boilfast colors in sizes 30 and 50. Size 1 is the coarsest, 100 the finest.

1 s c in each hole of hemstitching. 2d row: Cross st repeated over and over throughout row. In picking up for cross st always skip 1 s c of preceding row; between cross st make no ch, and at center of each make 3 ch. (No. 25 tells how to make cross st). 3d row: Over 1st 3-ch loop make 1 s c; ch 2, over next 3-ch loop make 1 tr and 1 p alternately until 6 tr have been made in same place. Ch 2, repeat from beginning of row.