New-York tribune., 1880-03-07
KNITTING AND CROCHET.
MOSAIC PATTERN.
From The Weekly Tribune.

From The Weekly Tribune
The remarkable skill which the osteooglst ana
raleonto.ogst attain Is strikingly shown III the
certainty with which the forms OF prlneVai
monsters have been built up from n single oone'
broken fossil in their hands becomes an extinct
h,ra ,r rent,le whose FORM size and mode OF life
ore "a vivid 70 the scientific eve as If the Neotmc
oge ware bnt a thing of yesterday letter from
q RrooLlvn correspondent asks the Crochet Depart
,oort to val these experts in another field. Mrs
f. L. f. incloses the fragment OF pattern ana
saws; IL have been trying 10 copy from memory
stitch with which saw an Afghan made send
the sample that you NAV know what stitch refer
TO Will YOU please give the directions for correctly
making IT, not omitting TO say how to keep the
work from narrowing; also how to prevent the
next row of wheels from having wrong side ap-
pearance!"
The sample consisted of few rows Of 'whees''
very nicely worked Oh each side of the foundation
chain. with intervening zigzag line of what KNIT
ters would call "chaih edge" This CHAIN edge
WAS apparently part of series Of fouI-slded hg-
ures and the problem which evidently peip'eNed
e. E. was how TO turn her wheels into squares,
or IN other words the old problem of "squaring tie
circle"-a problem. by the way, which the clever
est geoneiers have declared Impossible" True
these ancient and modern mathema'clans were
men, But what woman would ever confess that Der
coplous vocabulary included such word as NE
possblepl Let Mrs Z. l.. E.. therefore, proceed as
follows. and success 1t is hoped, will crown her
efforts:
For experimental purposes, make chain of p
stitches.
First row: Miss chain, put WOO around NOOK,
and work ] treble into the fourth cham stitch.
Work more trebles INTO the same stitch. miss 2
CHI. and finish the first wheel" with a DC
ON the next ch. Miss 2 ch.. work tcbes
into the next. miss ch.. and finish the secoad
wheel with DC on the following chain Repeat
from 10 end and fastcn of. The result OF the
first row is a series of four wheels, each composed
OF eight treble stitches The wool is broken of at
tie end of each
Second row Join the wool at the top of the FIRST
treble OF thc first wheel with DC. uhs treble.
remember consists of the last ch. OF the f0undd-
ton row. Then put wool around hook. and IN
sert al the back of the second treble, lust beio"
what may be calen the rim of the wheel. passing
under two threads and draw the wool through.
There are now loops on tho hook Draw the wool
through two. This leaves two loops on the hook
Put wool around again. and insert hook
i'm the same way through tho back OF
the third treble Draw the wool thfo ugh.
catch it again aud pull through two loops There
are now 3 loops the hook. Raise another loop III
the same way on the fourth treble. These are
called tricot6e trebles and there are now four OF
them on the hook. Catch the wool and draw II
through all four, and make chain. This finishes
the first half-sauare Make 8 chain and then DC
between the fourth and fifth trebles Of the wheel
Now raise .our tricot6e trcbcs the last four Of
the wheel miss the DC between the wheels, and
rase four more 1ricotee trebes the first four Of
the second wheel. There are now nine loops on the
hook Draw the wool through the whole and finish
the square with / chain. Make ch. and then !
DC between the 4th and fifth trebles OF the second
wheel Repeat from till only trebles Of the last
wheel are left Raise these and make a half square
as at the beginning of the row. and fasten oil
Thirl low: Join the wool with DC in the
same stitch as in the second row. and work u ordi-
nary trebes In the little hole formed at the middle
Of the half square by the l ch. Finish with IA DC
worked completely the first DC of the second
low. Next work treble into the centre Of tie
first complete square and finish with DC worked
over the second DC of the previous row. Repeat
from twice. or till the half square is reached. In
the centre of this half tquare work u trebles las III
the half square at the beginning of the row. and
make DC the last DC of second row ana
fasten off As the result of the third row there are
nov wheels of trebles each in the middle, ana
large wheel of ~ trebes each side.
Fourth row JON the wool with DC on the
ton of the Sfh treble of the first wheel Raise
tricot6e treble. miss the DC, raise more on
the first 4 of the second wheel draw the wool
through tie whole. and IN Ike ch.. then make )
ch and flush with a DC between the 4th and
9th trebes of tine second wheel. Repeat from
three times, ending with a DC between the 4th
and 5th trebes of the last wheel of II.
Fifth row: Join with DC exactly where the
4th row was begun, and work treble INTO the CEN
ire of the rst square. and finish this wheel with
DC worked completely over the DC Of the pre-
vious row. Repeat from three times, and iasten
of. There are now whecls as at the end OF the
first row.
Repeat the 3D. 3d. 4th and 9th rows as often as
may be desired. The pattern when properly worked
forus a series of squares of which the sides consist
of the Chain edge already spoken Of. with hole III
the centre from which all the stitches seem to rad-
ate and row Of wheels or scalOps down each side
Of the work. Done IN double zephyr wool. az all
fancy patterns ought to be, the effect IS very hand
some.