lain stitches only, the second, of chain stitches
and trebles.

MEDALLION (fig. 505).--Take two colours of thread and fill two
shuttles with the light colour and two with the dark. Make with one
shuttle: 24 double and 12 picots, 6 of them short and 6 long; close the
ring, break off the thread and fasten off the ends by a stitch or two on
the wrong side.--For the next 4 rows take two shuttles.

[Illustration: FIG. 505. MEDALLION. MATERIALS: Fil d'Alsace D.M.C in
balls Nos. 30 to 50.[A] COLOURS: White and Rouge-Geranium 352, or ecru
and Vert-Mousse 471, Bleu pale 668 and Jaune d'Or 676.]

1st row--with the shuttles containing the light colour = fasten the ends
on to a short picot and make: * 3 double, 1 short picot, 2 double, 1
long picot, 2 double, 1 long picot, 2 double, 1 long picot, 2 double, 1
short picot, 3 double; pass the right hand thread through one of the
short picots of the first ring, repeat the series 5 times from *.

When you reach the 6th half ring, instead of making the second picot,
put the left hand thread through the short picot of the first half ring,
then complete the last double knots, cut the threads off, pass them
through the picot of the ring and fasten them off on the wrong side.

2nd row--with the shuttles filled with the light colour = fasten the
ends on to a long picot, then make: * 4 double, 1 picot, 4 double, pass
the right hand thread through the picot of the first row and repeat the
series 17 times from *.

3rd row--with the shuttles filled with the dark colour = fasten the ends
on to one of the picots of the last row and make: * 4 double, pass the
right hand thread through the picot of the 2nd row, make a long picot, 4
double and repeat this series all round the medallion, until you have 18
scallops.

4th row--with the shuttles filled with the dark colour = * 2 double, 1
picot, 2 double, 1 picot, 2 double, 1 picot, 2 double, pass the right
hand thread, from the wrong side, through the picot of the 2nd row and
begin again from *.

[Illustration: FIG. 506. INSERTION OF TATTING AND CROCHET. MATERIALS:
Fil d'Alsace D.M.C in balls Nos. 30 to 70, or Fil a dentelle D.M.C Nos.
25 to 50. COLOURS: Bleu de France 344 and Jaune-Rouille 365.]

INSERTION OF TATTING AND CROCHET (fig. 506).--Fill two shuttles, one
with a light colour, say, Bleu de France 344, the other with a darker,
such as Jaune-Rouille 365, and two numbers coarser than the thread you
intend to use for the crochet. Begin wit