CROCHET WINDOW CURTAIN
MATERIALS..—Brooks' Great Exhibition Prize Goat's-head Crochet
Cotton. Penelope Hook.
May be worked from the engraving in any thickness of cotton, amounting to the
size of curtain required; the larger the curtain the thicker the cotton should
be. It likewise, in thick cotton, looks remarkably well for bed curtains.
The extreme elaboration of this pattern demands that the material in which it
is worked should be lighter than it need be when the design is simpler and less
rich. The use of finer materials also diminishes the size of the pattern; we,
therefore, recommend No. 70: but, of course, it is optional to use coarser.
In No. 70 Cotton, about 6 patterns, besides the border, will make a curtain
two yards wide; but in No. 40, not more than five patterns would be required.
The border should be worked at each edge, which may very easily be done by
working backwards from the centre of the last pattern, to the edge. It is not
necessary to work a border at the top of the curtains.
Each pattern contains 61 squares or 183 stitches; the border 45 squares or
135 stitches; reckoning from the extreme edge to the straight line 8 squares,
which occurs in every scroll between the patterns. For 6 patterns and 2 borders,
therefore, 1,368 stitches would be required for a foundation, with the one over,
always needed in square crochet. In working the border along the bottom, care
must be taken completely to reverse it at the centre, that is, after 3 patterns,
otherwise the corner would not be found to go right.
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