Shamrock-Leaf D’Oyley. — [Fig. 4.]
Materials.—Cotton No. 16. Crochet hook, No. 17. Eagle card-board gauge. 8 ch., close for a round.
1st.—16 dc.
2nd.—✕ 7 ch., miss 1, sc. on 2nd, ✕ 8 times.
3rd.—✕ 6 ch., sc. on the centre of 7 ch., ✕; repeat all round.
4th.—Dc. all round, increasing 1 in every other stitch.
5th.—7 ch., miss 2, dc. into 3rd; turn the work, 5 ch., miss 2, dc. into 3rd, ✕ 5 times, turn the work, and repeat from the beginning of the row.
6th.—✕ sc. on the point of a scallop; 6 ch., sc. on centre of next scallop, 9 ch., ✕; repeat.
7th.—7 tc. on 6 ch., 13 ch., ✕ 7 tc. on next 6 ch., 13 ch., ✕ all round.
8th.—✕ sc. on centre of 13 ch., 26 ch., ✕ sc. on centre of next 13, 26 ch., ✕; repeat all round.
9th.—Dc. all round, increasing every other stitch.
10th.—7 ch., sc. into the same stitch, turn the work, 2 dc., 7 tc., 2 dc., in loop of 7, turn again, miss 8; repeat.
11th.—Commence with sc. on the point of the leaf, make 7 ch., sc. on the point of the next leaf, and so on all round.
12th.—✕ sc. on centre of 7 ch., 9 ch., ✕, repeat.
13th.—✕ sc. on centre of 9 ch., 7 ch., ✕ repeat.
14th.—Sc. on centre of the chain of 7, 8 ch., slip stitch into the same, 12 ch., slip into the same, 8 ch., slip into the same; turn the work; work under the 8 ch., 1 sc., 2 dc., 6 tc., 2 dc., 1 sc.; the loop of 12 work in the same way with 12 tc., the loop of 8, with 6 tc.; fasten off; miss 2 chains of 7, sc. on 3rd, 10 ch., miss 5, dc. on the 6th, 1 ch., miss 1., sc. on 2nd, 1 ch., miss 1, slip on first of 10, work all round in tc., except the first and last stitches in sc.; fasten off; miss 2 chains of 7, and repeat from the beginning of the round.
15th.—✕ sc. on the point of the single leaf, 15 ch., sc. on point of the shamrock, 15 ch., ✕; repeat.
16th.— Dc. all round, increasing in every other stitch.
17th.—✕ sc. in one stitch, 7 ch., miss 2, repeat.
18th.—✕ sc. in centre of 7 ch., 9 ch., ✕; repeat.
19th.—✕ sc. in centre of 8 ch., 9 ch., ✕; repeat.
20th.—sc. under 9 ch., ✕ 5 tc. under the same, 12 ch., sc. under the next 9 ch., ✕; repeat.
Like all other crochet work, this pattern may be greatly increased by the use of coarser materials. Worked with Evans’s boar’s-head cotton, No. 4, and a hook proportionably large, it will make a very pretty couvrette for a music-stool.