BACK AND SIDES OF SLIPPER. KNITTING PATTERN FOR VARIOUS THIS Pattern is suitable for making many useful little articles. It is pretty for babies' We berceaunette blankets or cot covers, lined with silk, or knitted in very coarse wool for travelling rugs. Different kinds of wool must, of course, be selected, according to the purpose for which the knitting is intended. We will give our readers the directions for knitting the stitch, and they can then make use of it for either of the articles just mentioned. would advise them to select, for a baby's blanket, white fleecy wool; for a cot cover, double Berlin; and for a travelling rug, 8-thread fleecy. The following directions will be found correct for knitting the stitch: Cast on any number of stitches that will divide by 4, and allow besides 1 for each end. 1st row: Slip 1, make 1, slip 1, knit 3, draw the slipped stitch over the 3 knitted ones, repeat from *, knit 1. 2d: Knit 1, purl all out the last stitch, which knit plain. 3d: Same as 1st. 4th: Same as 2d. It will be seen that the pattern is very easy to knit, and is very quickly executed. * THE figure is cut out of scarlet eioth, stitched on and braided with gold-colored braid. The veins of the leaf are worked with gold-colored silk. TO MAKE A RUG. A VERY economical rug may be made of odds and ends of dresses, etc. that are good for nothing else. For a foundation, take gunny cloth, such as coffee-sacks, and with thread trace the size desired; fasten this upon a rough frame made of strips of lath. Trace a design in the centre-for instance, a diamond—and a waved or pointed border, with circles in the corners. Geometrical desigus are more suitable, far better than those miserable, stiff masses called flowers. Having the materials for use, cut in strips half an inch wide, and wound in lengths upon balls. Take a large hook, somewhat like a crochet hook, but a |
