mp headings and the like can be made in
this kind of crochet work. It is often used in combination with ordinary
crochet and plain and scalloped braids and gimps, or as a heading for
fringes made of tufts and pendant balls. There are a great many stitches
which can be worked in hairpin-crochet. We shall only describe those
here that will best teach our readers how the work is done.

MATERIALS.--For washing laces, Cordonnet 6 fils D.M.C is the best; for
furniture fringes, the lower numbers of Coton a tricoter D.M.C, and for
producing the appearance of filoselle, the lower numbers of Coton a
repriser D.M.C are to be taken.

[Illustration: FIG. 448. STEEL HAIRPIN FOR CROCHET.]

[Illustration: FIG. 449. WOODEN FORK FOR CROCHET.]

[Illustration: FIG. 450. FORK WITH SEVERAL PRONGS FOR CROCHET.]

STITCHES.--Begin by a chain stitch, made with an ordinary crochet
needle, take the needle out of the loop, and insert the left prong of
the fork upwards from below, holding the fork between the thumb and
finger of the left hand. The thread should always be in front. Then put
the thread over the right prong and the needle into the loop on the left
prong, take up the thread, draw it through the loop, put the thread over
the needle and draw it through the loop that is on the needle, twist the
loop round the left prong, turn the needle round to the right (the
thread will now be wound round the right prong); put the needle into the
loop on the left prong, throw the thread over the needle, draw it
through, tighten the loops and so on.

These stitches may be doubled, or you may make several trebles on each
loop, or arrange the plain stitches in different ways.

[Illustration: FIG. 451. HAIRPIN INSERTION.

MATERIALS: Fil a pointer D.M.C No. 20 or 30, or Cordonnet 6 fils D.M.C
Nos. 4 to 15, white or ecru.[A]]

HAIRPIN INSERTION (fig. 451).--Begin by making stripes with the fork,
covering each thread with two plain stitches. Then join the stripes
together by the loops, drawing the left loop over the right one and the
right one over the left. When you come to the end of the stripes fasten
off the last loops by a few stitches. To strengthen the edges, join two
loops together by 1 plain, 2 chain, 1 plain and so on.

[Illustration: FIG. 452. HAIRPIN LACE

MATERIALS--For the hairpin work: Fil a pointer D.M.C Nos. 20 to 30, or
Cordonnet 6 fils D.M.C Nos. 3 to 10, white or ecru. For the edge. Coton
a tricoter D.M.C Nos. 16 to 30.

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