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CROCHET TRIMMING FOR UNDER- CLOTHING, put in, and the edges gummed over, when the binding is gummed inside over the cardboard . Then for the bottom, on one side, cut a piece of the canvas three inches long and about threequarters of an inch broad, rounded at the corners, also a piece of cardboard the same size, and bind them round with a narrow binding of the brown ribbon, ornamented with steel beads,

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and sew it to the binding of the case, and cover the seam with a line of stalk-stitch . The inner case is made in the same manner, but without the ornamental embroidery, and pushed in. Before the bottom is finished, the ribbon loops are placed between the canvas and cardboard, and a button is placed on the under side to close the case.

CROCHET TRIMMING FOR UNDER- CLOTHING , ETC. BY MRS . JANE WEAVER .

If it be considered desirable to run a ribbon through this trimming, it is used double. Work crosswise in rows forward and backward twenty chain, one double-treble in the first chain, * eight chain, one double in the same stitch that took up the treble. Turn round and crochet

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ten double in the chain-stitch hole just formed, then eight double in the next eight chain of the large hole. Turn round again and crochet eleven chain, one double-treble in both the threads of the stitch lying over the preceding treble. Continue to repeat from *.

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