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Show CROCHETED CENTERPIECE. Abbreviations: Chain, eh; single crochet, cro-chet, r c; doublo crochet, d c; stitches, St. This may be crocheted with flno or coarso cotton thread, or sllkatccn, Just as ono prefers. It can also be made with n plain center or linen, buttonhole stitched nil around, and tho Insertion border and lace crocheted around thnt. The lace Is also n nlco pattern to uso Independently, writes a contributor to Farm and Home. To make tho centerpleco as represented repre-sented In tho Illustration begin by making G ch st nnd join. Into tho small ring thus made, work as follows: fol-lows: First row 12 s c. Socoml, Ud, 4th nnd 5th rows Al- I Bft$"'i" Ib' NOT HAM) TO MAKE, ways with a c, Increasing Biifllclontly to keep work lint. Sixth row 1 d c into ovory st nnd 1 ch kotwecu each d c. Sovonth row 1 d c into each st. Eighth row 2 d c nnd 2 ch between each 2 d c, always skipping over 2 st. Ninth row 2 d c nnd 3 ch botwecn each 2 d c. Tenth row S c into oach st all around. Eleventh row 2 d c und 2 ch uo-twoen uo-twoen each 2 d c, skipping 3 st, so as to keep spokes of wheel oven. Twolfth row Snmo us llth row, only havlu;; 4 ch between each 2 d c. Thirteenth row D c into each st. Fouiteenth row 2 d c, with G ch between be-tween each 2 d c. Fifteenth row Same ns 14th, only having C ch between each d c. Sixteenth row All s c Into each st. Sovet'.teonth row I d c nnd 2 ch bo-tween bo-tween each U c, always skipping 1 st of preceding row. Eighteenth row 1 d c Into loop ot preceding row, 2 ch, and so on. Nineteenth row Same ns 18th row. Twentieth row D o Into each st. Twenty-first row a d o and 2 ch, always al-ways skipping 2 st of preceding row. Twenty-second row 3 d c into each loop of preceding row, with 3 ch between be-tween each 3 d c. I Twenty third uud 24th rows Saino j as 22d row. Twenty-llfth row S c Into each st all uround. I Twenty-sixth row (lace) 5 ch und fasten with s c Into st of preceding row, and so on. Twouiy-soventh row 5 ch and fasten fas-ten with s c Into loop of precodlng row, .Make 3 such loops, and Into tho 4th work G d c, nnd so on. Twenty-eighth row Mako two 5 ch i loops Into tho groups of 3 loops below, and ch 3, then 8 d c above the G d c of precodlng row, ch 3 and so on. I Twenty-ninth row MnkoonoSch loop, ch 3, nnd 1 d c Into each d c of preceding pre-ceding row, with 1 ch between each d. c. I Thirtieth row C ch caught down ! with u s c Into each loop of preceding row. |