make three trebles in the seventh loop of chain. * Then skip four chain, and make one double crochet in fifth chain, then make three chain, then three trebles in same chain that you made one double crochet in. Then skip four chain, and make one double crochet in fifth chain and repeat from * to the end of the row. After making three trebles in last chain you turn and make three chain; then make one * double chain in the last three chain of the previous row; make three chain, then make three treble in the same place you made the last double crochet. Make one double crochet in the next three chain, and repeat from * . Make a border of shell stitch after the shawl is square. Use a very coarse ivory needle for the shawl.
INFANT'S SACQUE IN SHELL STITCH.
Make a chain of one hundred stitches for a foundation. 1st row: Crochet across a row of open trebles, i. e., one chain between each and skipping one stitch in the foundation, fifty trebles in all.
2nd row: Turn the work and crochet back making a shell of two trebles each, between each treble of first row, forty-eight shells.
3rd row: Widen for the shoulders by crocheting three trebles in the eleventh and twelfth shells from each edge.
4th row: Plain, except to make two shells in each place where it was widened in the preceding row. Continue widening every other row on the shoulders until you have widened five times, being careful to widen directly under the shell where you widened first.
8th row: Widen in the two shells in the centre of the back in the same way as you did for the shoulders. In widening the back widen always in the two centre stitches (not as on the shoulders).
12th row: Crochet eleven shells, then back to the first side, dropping all the shells between the widening shells for a shoulder gore — skip ten shells for part of the arm-
