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Bath and Boudoir

   Here are new ideas for trimming your "extra special" linens. J. & P. Coats or Clark's O.N.T. Mercerized Crochet, sizes 30 and 50, are popularly used. Edgings and insertions crocheted of Clark's O.N.T. "Brilliant" have a rich, lustrous effect. For delicate laciness, use J. & P. Coats Tatting Cotton, size 70, or fine sizes of Mercerized Crochet.

   Bath towel edgings are attractively made of Pearl Cotton, size 5, Clark's O.N.T. Cronita and J. & P. Coats Knit-Cro-Sheen—using Milward's steel crochet hook No. 5, 6 or 7.

8044 • garden gate

Pull a band of threads ¼ inch from edge of cloth, join thread, and working over edge of cloth into band of drawn threads, make 2 s c for every 5 or 6 threads. This divides the threads into groups and gives the appearance of hemstitching. 2nd row: Ch 3, turn; 1 d c in each of next 3 s c, * ch 3, skip 3 s c, 1 d c in each of next 4 s c, repeat from * to end of row. 3rd row: Ch 3, turn; 1 d c in each of next 3 d c, (ch 3, 1 d c in each of next 4 d c) twice, * ch 3, 1 d c in 1st d c of next group, (ch 2, a ch-7 p) 5 times, turn. Ch 3, 1 sl st in 9th d c from hook, ch 1, turn. 4 s c over each ch between p's (having p's lie inside of scallop), 1 sl st in last d c. 1 d c in each of next 3 d c of last row (ch 3, 1 d c in each of next 4 d c) 3 times. Repeat from * to end of row. Fasten off. 4th row: Join to ch-3 at start of last row, 1 s c in next d c, * working in back loops only of sts, make (1 s c in next s c on scallop, 1 half d c and 1 d c in next s, c, 1 d c and 1 half d c in next s c, 1 s c in next) 6 times around scallop. 1 s c in each of last 2 d c of group at end of scallop, 3 s c over next ch-3, 1 s c in next 2 dc. Repeat from *. Fasten off.