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Show HEAKNING TO MAKE IM5H , I HA1 C ROCHET LACE &UL I misses ) j .. fe JPfta:iaJ FifW 'jWs r"""""-" mm..,.-.m;.. .igg rk ; something just when It is needed. Some-times Some-times a large unrulier of motives must bo made before the joining together is begun. A work Imc Is not a good way to keep theni, for they are apt to get oil tangled up A inurh Letter way l.s a basket with pockets or ji box with divisions. The motives vnnd different material used ought always to bo In order and ready for use. Needles, thread and scissor scis-sor should be with tbom, ns well ns the actual crochet materials. If everything In ready the work will be much easier than If on;? ha to stop and bunt for something needed. j 1 tight oer the thread. On of these rltips is .uewi'd on em h shamrock. ! When vnii have a large number of the motive ready they u re cpx-heted to-j Ci tlier with the plain chain stitch filling,! tlie length of ttie chains varying whi n It i is iifi ovary to till a certain space. TIie easiest way fi get the motives all In place anil the live Hat is to sew them on a pii re of strong muslin in the cor- -f.rt ion and then -t must have a straight Hue at each edife. A CHARMING Irish iare tab to use over a ph-atcd linen jabot for the neck is made in the pineapple design. de-sign. To make this requires two pineapples, pineap-ples, three rings and tliree triangles The rule for the pineapple Is to wind four Istraods of padding thread three times a nE girl who is clover with her I fingers will find a particularly I cmoyabln way to uso them In 1 making Irish crochet lace, nml the enjoyment will bo much enhanced en-hanced by the thought of all the lovely thiDgs she can make either for herself her-self or to give away to her friends. Nothing Ss more popular s.d rnoro fashionable fash-ionable now than this lace, but, alas! it Is expensive, and many girls will have to think twice before buying oven one of the dainty bows or jabots for the neck that are made of it. But. on the other hand, It Is not difficult to nioko, with a little practice. The reason it costs so much is that the work takes so mneh time The ?Irl who once learns to do It herself her-self enn get through a large amount, how- j ever, by picking It up nt odd moments. That Is one of the advantages of the work that it can be done a little at a time; but it is so fascinating that the ! worker is rnrely ready to lay it down j unless .'he musL The stitches used are just the ordinary crochet chain 6tltch. single, double nnd tnble nud the materials arc a cotton made for the purpose and n linen thread i for padding tho flower and leaf designs, nil of whirh are crocheted over this linen j thread. Tho work ia done with a line steel crochet needle. Irish hire is made with tho cotton of severs! different v eights, but the Imcr the cotton used the mure delicato will be the lue. There are, however, some ways In which the heavier lace a more effective, and it is certainly better for n beginner to use a rather coarse thread at first, as it will be easier to learn with that than I with tho very fine cotton. J TI1E) best thlni; to learn first fs one ' of the bimple inscrtioni ; then, perhaps, per-haps, another of these nnd the little edpng to go with them. They are very cany nnd make nn exquisite trimming for a lingerie waist or even for a whole dnss of white batiste, if a girl has time to tuuko enough for that. If she wants her gown to be more eltib-orate eltib-orate she can, before having it made, learn to crochet some of the simpler separate sep-arate motives and make enough of th'-m lu form nn elaborate decoration, combined with the insertion. The simplest and easiest to make of the insertions nnd the best one to start with has only one kind of stitch, the single chain stitch. The directions for making it are as follows Make a chain of fifteen, turn and make a plcot by catching the ihnin buck three stitebe from the end ; chnin three, catch in centre of chain to form a loop ; chain six, make a picot by cnt'-hing chain back three stitches, chnin six, make a picot, chnin three and catch in beginning of first chain ; chain nine, make picot ; chain three, turn and cntch in centre of loop; chain six, make picot; chain six, make picot; chain three and eatrh in top of next loop. ' Repeat from until you have the desired leugtb of insertion. Then muke the beading bead-ing along the edges by starting at the beginning of one side and working single crochet stitches, with one chain stitch between. be-tween. When once learned this will go verj quickly, and several rather more elab-j orate insertions can be made with just slight variations from this design. The! pluiti 611ing used In putliDg together the; flower motives in elaborate Irih lace is made lu just the same wjiy ns this simple sim-ple Insertion. The Crst change" to make if a little different insertion wanted is to put in a shell design here and there, made of double crochet stitches, nnd to make the insertion wider This will be easily done if the first design has been learned thoroughly and the worker can use her own taste a great deal. Any one who crochets much Irish lice works a great deal by tho eye, but careful care-ful directiouu can be bought for almost any design. chain stitche 0 0iirn Trn nnfj worjj unr again io loops of four chain stitches, catching catch-ing each Into the top of a loop in the first row. Mnke eleven loops in this row, turn again and work back in the same way, making ten loops, and continue in this way till you come to a point of one loop. P-reuk the thread and end off. Start again where the four strands of padding come .out of the rlog and work double crochet over padding and outside edge of pineapple, pine-apple, making three double stitches and a .picot of four rhnin. then three double Urochet. Continue this around the pineapple, pine-apple, making sure to have a picot at the ix.int. The three rings above Ihe pineapples are made f twelve si rands of pndding thread covered with single crochet and a second row of the crochet over padding outside. The triangle is .started with four strands of padding wound twice around the knitting msille, leaving a long end. Work over the ring single crochet solid land a second row over four strands of padding. At three places in this second row mnke tliree picot s. W hen thta row is finished go on working over p;idding j (ill it Is lmig enough to make n loop caught to the edge of the ring one-third of the wav round. Make three of these loops laroiitul the ring and work an outer row lof crochet with groups of three pirots at the points of the triangle and at the places where it joins the inner ring When all these motives are finished lutste them on a piece of muslin, as shown In the picture, J and till in with the chaiu filling. Under this tab goes u pleating of linen with a very narrow crochet edge, and the effect is much better If the edge is crocheted right into the linen than If sewed on. One very important point in making Irish bee Is to have a convenient receptacle recep-tacle for the work. There urc so many things to keep that It is very easy to lose L5a3f;l ; ; ... , ''V;r&' i "i - iV .HVri kH-i ufm(l'-- w in 1 1 .... . .i . ... .V.i i.n. - ..mi W.--; I- i rl r- rect position and then work the filling so that it will hold them. The last thing to do is to make n straight line at the top and an edge at the bottom of the lace, j The same design may be used for an in-' nround a knitting needle or thin pencil, leaving a long loose end. Work over this cord in single crochet until it is closely covered, then in about half the circumference circum-ference make twelve little loops with fourj ffvi? h.m V rA sijrns for separate motives, and some pieces of lace will have only one of these. I repented many limes, while others wii! have several different ones, sometimes! many designs in one piece of lace. It is best to learn tirst one motive ondj make a lace with this dsign, n simple filling and edging A specially pretty and an easy one is the shamrock motive. This THE girl who has learned to crochet narrow trimming and filling will , want next to learn how to muke the flower and lenf motives that arc used in the more elaborate lace. These are made in sep.irate pieces, and put together with filling, then an edge crocheted on if that is wanted. There are innumerable de is made in the following way: Make n nud of three strands ot linen padding: thread nnd make :lilrty-oue double crochet I stitches owr it for the stem. Theu you br" ready to begin the lirst b-af. Kor 'this work live double stilrhrs, fifteen treble land five double over the cord; one double across the cord at the first Mitch of the leaf to Join and form a loop, l'uss the cord Is liiml the stem and work over it twenty-five double a round the loop already made, catching each stitch in the lop of iun inner one. This finishes the first part of the lejf. Fur die. sccoud part work hvc double, twenty treble sud five double over the cord; join us in the first part, pa.vs the curd behind oud work thirty double stitches over the cord aronud this loop. The thinl part is made the aine as the first. This makes one whole shamrock. sham-rock. Next work nine double over the cord into the next nine stitches of the stem, thi u tweiity-sjx double over the cord alone for lhu upper part .f the ninn Mukoi the top shamrock just like the first one, then work twenty six double over the cord and luto the other twenty-six of the stem then three double over the cord below where the first shamrock branches off, and nine doublu over the cord alone. Make n third shamrock like the others, theu nine-double nine-double over the cord and into the hist nine' and finish with double stitches over the cord to the end of hn stem. In the centre of ei.'h of the shamrocks is a small ring, which is made by winding the pudding thread fifteen time around a kuittin; needle or any small round objee. and working duublo crochet sliiehe-s vcrj j |