the
collar.

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[Illustration: No. 50. MITTEN.]

[Illustration: No. 51. FLORAL COLLAR.]

[Illustration: No. 52. CENTRE OF A COVER FOR MUSIC BOOK OR PORTFOLIO.]

[Illustration: No. 53. WINTER HEAD-DRESS.]

[Illustration: No. 54. "BABOCHE," OR CANDLE ORNAMENT.]

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EMBROIDERY

52. CENTRE OF A COVER FOR MUSIC-BOOK OR PORTFOLIO.

_Materials--Black satin or velvet; three shades of green, two ditto of
crimson, two ditto of blue, and one skein of olive silk; and one piece
of silver twist_.

Work, in embroidery-stitch, the leaves with the greens, the flowers with
the crimson, the stems with the olive, the harp with blue, the cords of
harp with the silver twist, and the shamrocks with green.

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CROCHET.

53. WINTER HEAD-DRESS.

_Materials--Half-an-ounce of shaded scarlet Berlin wool, and six skeins
of white wool; Penelope crochet No. 2_.

With white make a chain measuring 18 inches. Work a row in single open
crochet. With scarlet work 2 rows, decreasing 1 stitch at the end of
each row. Work the next row with white, and continue alternately 2 rows
scarlet and 1 white, decreasing every row until 9 rows are completed.

_For the Borders_.--With white work in chains of 7, missing every
alternate stitch at the back, and taking every stitch at the sides; and
for the space of 24 stitches in the centre of the cap miss 2 stitches.
Work a second row of chains of 7 at the sides. Work an additional border
in the same manner, taking the stitches above the third row of white.
Pass casings of scarlet ribbon through each of the rows of white wool,
place loops of the same between the borders, join the cap behind, and
finish with a rosette of ribbon.

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54. "BABOCHE," OR ORNAMENT FOR CANDLES.

The materials required are, a quarter of a yard of bright rose-coloured
glazed muslin, a quarter of a yard of white glazed jaconet muslin, two
pieces of card of three inches and a half long and one inch broad; join
in, and cut out of rose and white jaconet muslin twenty pieces of each
colour; fold them, and sew on the card 5 rose, then 5 white, all round,
and your baboche will be completed.--(_See_ drawing.) We assure our fair
readers they are exceedingly pretty, and certainly not found
_difficult_.

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SCAG