A treatise on lace-making, embroidery, and needle-work with Irish flax threads . r or narrower, as preferred,and is improved by the addition of a simple picot edge. This stitch I brought from Germany, and the idea of utilizing itin this way is my own. PICOT POINT DOILY. [Contributed by Mrs. A. H. Hall, Detroit, Mich.] Materials : Barbours flax crochet thread, No. 60, in balls, or 3-cord, 200-yards spools, and fine steel hook.Ch 5, join. 1. Ch 3, 19 tc in ring, join to top of 3 ch with 1 sc. 2. Ch 3, 1 tc in 1st st and 2 in each succeeding tc, making 40tc in all, join to top of 3 ch. 3> 4j 5

A treatise on lace-making, embroidery, and needle-work with Irish flax threads . r or narrower, as preferred,and is improved by the addition of a simple picot edge. This stitch I brought from Germany, and the idea of utilizing itin this way is my own. PICOT POINT DOILY. [Contributed by Mrs. A. H. Hall, Detroit, Mich.] Materials : Barbours flax crochet thread, No. 60, in balls, or 3-cord, 200-yards spools, and fine steel hook.Ch 5, join. 1. Ch 3, 19 tc in ring, join to top of 3 ch with 1 sc. 2. Ch 3, 1 tc in 1st st and 2 in each succeeding tc, making 40tc in all, join to top of 3 ch. 3> 4j 5 Stock Photo
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A treatise on lace-making, embroidery, and needle-work with Irish flax threads . r or narrower, as preferred, and is improved by the addition of a simple picot edge. This stitch I brought from Germany, and the idea of utilizing itin this way is my own. PICOT POINT DOILY. [Contributed by Mrs. A. H. Hall, Detroit, Mich.] Materials : Barbours flax crochet thread, No. 60, in balls, or 3-cord, 200-yards spools, and fine steel hook.Ch 5, join. 1. Ch 3, 19 tc in ring, join to top of 3 ch with 1 sc. 2. Ch 3, 1 tc in 1st st and 2 in each succeeding tc, making 40tc in all, join to top of 3 ch. 3> 4j 5? 6, 7> 8, 9, 10. Like 2d row, widening sufficiently tomake the mat lie flat. The last row has 143 sts. 11. Ch 3, 10 tc in following 10 tc, ch 6, make a picot by fas- PICOT POINT DOILY. 43 tening back in 5 th st with 1 sc, ch 1, miss 2 tc of last row, 11 tcin next 11 tc; repeat from *all around, joining last 1 ch to top of 3ch at beginning. 12. 1 sc over next tc, ch 3, 8 tc over next 8 tc, picot as in lastrow, ch 1, tc in picot of last row, picot as before (always by 6 ch, . Picot Point Doily, fastened back in 5th st, and 1 ch), tc in picot of last row, picot, miss 1 tc, 9 tc on 9 tc, and repeat around, joining last picot to top of 3 ch. 13. 1 sc in next tc, ch 3, 6 tc in next 6 tc, picot, tc on 1st tc inopen point, picot, tc in picot of last row, picot, tc in same place, picot, tc on next tc, picot, miss 1st tc, 7 tc on 7 tc, and repeataround, joining to top of 3 ch as before. 44 barbours prize needle-work series. 14. Like 13th row, with 5 tc in solid point and 7 picots in openpoint. 15. Like 13th row, with 3 tc in solid point, and 9 picotsbetween. 16. Like 13th row, 1 tc in solid point, and 11 picots between.I took the idea for this doily from Picot Collar in No. 2 of the Prize Series of Needlework. It is very pretty, easily made, anddurable. May be made larger if desired, by enlarging the centreand having the base of the points consist of a larger number of tc.Worked with fl