This should also be crocheted over
wire.
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240 to 243.--_Couvrette in Crochet_.
Materials: Messrs. Walter Evans and Co.'s Boar's Head cotton No. 10, and
steel crochet needle.
This very pretty pattern is composed of separate circles representing
dahlias in raised work upon an open centre. No. 242 shows one of these
large circles in full size, No. 241 one of the small circles placed in
the spaces between the larger ones, No. 243 part of the border, and No.
240 the couvrette when completed, but in reduced size.
For each large circle make a chain of 20 stitches, and join it into a
circle.
1st round: 30 stitches of double crochet over the circle of chain
stitches.
2nd round: 36 stitches of double crochet.
3rd round: 1 double, 5 chain, miss 1. 4th round:
[Illustration: 240.--Couvrette in Crochet.]
The same as the preceding--the 1 double always on the 3rd chain.
5th round: Close double crochet; 3 stitches in 1 in the centre stitch of
each loop.
6th to 12th round: The same as the 5th, close double crochet, increasing
in the centre of each small scallop, which forms the 18 raised petals of
the dahlia.
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