The Lake County times., 1912-02-23
FOR A
Linen Shower

HE real disadvantage of cro-
cheting. with all its beauty. as
applied to house linen of any
sort is the undoubted fact
that the parting OF single thread-the
slipping OF a single loop-must mean
the ruin Of the article. This ID es-
pecially the case where the towel,
dolly or table runner is inadvertently
allowed to go into the washtub with
out few stitches having been taken
to prevent raveling. Unless the owner
be an expert and familiar with the pat
tern used in the beginning, IL is all but
impossible for her to recrochet the in
sertion or edging that has ripped out
Often. even when this knowledge is
hers, the trouble seems hardly worth
taking for a half worn piece.
| A girl who is clever with her needle
but has never learned the use of the
crochet hook while looking for some
| thing out of the stereotyped run to
make for her best friends linen shower
saw and admired some guest towels in
which a band of fillet crochet was in
serted above the hem. In this crochet
the expert had worked the initials OF
the person for whom the towel was
intended The girl studied over the
method and decided that as good
result could be attained by adapting
the ground used by needlewomen in
Fayal This would assuredly be far
more durable. So she bought a towel
length Of finely woven huckaback:
above the hems she drew threads, in
threes. both ways OF the linen. To put
it more clearly. across the towel about
a half inch above the row of hem
stitching she drew out three threads.
left the next and hemstitched the ends
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more and so on until the band was suf-
fciently wide. About twelve spaces
would be a very good width. These
she crossed with other drawn spaces
running up and down SO as to make a
square mesh band. With a fine linen
thread she worked across from side to
side along each set OF strands, taking
stitch around each set of threads be-
tween the crossings and so twisting
them into a sort of cord groundwork.
1t is very simple. being a mere "over-
d casting" When the cross lines were
worked in the same way a firm ground
2 was the result. The cut edges were
closely buttonholed and on the open
I ground the girl worked in a close
2 darning stitch, which made little solid
blocks-an adaptation of cross stitch
!. letters-her chum's initials. 1t took
some time. but the work when finished
would wear as long as the last thread
Of the towel, ripping out being impos-
sibie. Later she made other towels
3 using the same groundwork idea, but
8 running it up in diamond shaped points
4 toward the middle of the towel. Ant
s when she had finished a very hand
8 some little towel in this pattern still
4 another idea came into her head, ant
she made the third towel with thre
y medallions of the Fayal ground at eacl
II end, in each medallion being workes
one Of the bride elects three initials.
c In case the huckaback be only mod
erately fine two threads drawn AMI
G two left would prove quite open spac'
snough, or more lacy variation coult
De made by drawing three and leavinI
two, but this brings the matter int
the field of drawn work. which Is al
ways In good taste for towels IL no
quite so durable as darning done ol
- the Fayal ground.