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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.

Wind thread over little finger 12 times and over ring thus formed work 36 s c. Join. 2d rnd: S c in 1st s c, ch 4, skip 2 s c, 4 d tr in next, ch 4, skip 2 s c, and repeat from beginning of row. After last ch-4 join to 1st s c. 3d rnd: Sl st to top of first ch-4. Ch 4, 1 d tr in 2d d tr, holding last 2 loops back on hook. D tr in next d tr, working off last loops with those of 1st d tr. Ch 4, sl st in top of last d tr of group, ch 6, and repeat, beginning with 1 sl st in top of 1st d tr of next group, at end of rnd sl st to top of ch-4. 4th rnd: Ch 10, s c over ch-6, ch 10, s c in top of cluster. Repeat. 5th rnd: S c in 1st ch loop, * ch 5, s c in same loop. Repeat twice from *, ch 5. Repeat from beginning around. 6th rnd: Sl st back to center of last ch-5 loop. S c over that loop, ch 5, 4 d tr in center p of group, ch 5. Skip ch-5, s c in next. Repeat around. 7th rnd: Sl st to 1st d tr. Make s c in 1st d tr, ch 4, 1 d tr each in next 3 d tr, holding last loops of 1st and 2d back on hook, working them off with last loops of 3d d tr. * Ch 15, 4 d tr on next 4 d tr, working off last loops together as in preceding cluster. Repeat from *. 8th rnd: Over each ch-15 make 5 s c, ch 5, and catch for p, 5 s c, p, 5 s c, p, 5 s c.