stitches completes the lace edging, which is afterwards sewn
on to the counterpane.

COUNTERPANE WITH FRINGED BORDER (fig. 479).--This pattern requires
three colours; we suggest the following as making a very effective
combination: Rouge-Turc 321, Bleu-Indigo 311 and white.

The stripes, one red, the other blue, may be worked in any stitch. They
are edged with 8 plain stitches of 3 different lengths worked in red. *
The first stitch passes only under the loops of the stitches; the 2nd
over 2 stitches; the 3rd over 1, the 4th inwards, over 3. Repeat from *.

These stitches must be worked parallel to each other along the two edges
that are to be joined together.

The stripes are fastened together on the wrong side by single or plain
stitches.

The outside edge consists of 15 rows: 1st row--in red: 1 row of plain
stitches on the right side of the work.

2nd row--in red, and on the wrong side of the work: plain stitches.

3rd and 4th rows--in red, and on the right side of the work: plain
stitches.

5th row--in dark blue and on the right side: 1 treble, 1 chain, miss 1
plain of the row beneath, 1 treble and so on.

6th row--in white, and similar to the 5th.

7th row--in blue, and similar to the 5th.

8th row--in red: 1 plain on each stitch of the preceding row.

[Illustration: FIG. 479. COUNTERPANE WITH FRINGED BORDER. MATERIALS:
Coton pour crochet D.M.C Nos. 6 to 10, or Coton a tricoter D.M.C Nos. 6
to 14. COLOURS: White, Gris-Tilleul 331 and Rouge-Cornouille 449.[A]]

9th row--in red and on the wrong side: 1 plain on each stitch of the
preceding row.

10th and 11th rows--in red: and both on the right side, 2 rows of plain
stitches.

12th row--in white: 5 chain, miss 3, 1 plain on the 4th stitch.

13th row--in dark blue and similar to the 12th.

14th row--in white: * 1 plain on the 5th stitch of the blue row; 10
chain, drop the loop, lay the chain stitches from left to right, put the
needle into the 3rd chain stitch, counting from the beginning, take up
the loop and draw it through the 3rd chain stitch, 2 chain and repeat
from *.

15th row--in white: 1 plain on the picot formed by the chain stitches; 5
chain, 1 plain.

Into this last row you draw clusters of lengths of red cotton to form
the fringe, and knot them together with blue, or if you prefer it, you
may finish off the coverlet with a hairpin fringe.

COUNTERPANE COMPOSED OF SQUARES AND OLIVE SHAPED FIGURES (fig.
480).--There are many who s