recommend the former method.

This pattern is extremely well adapted for darning on square netting.
In that case the netting may be done in Brooks' Knitting Cord, No. 60,
and the darning in Embroidery Cotton, No. 70. The centre only can be
done thus--a netted border must trim it.

[Illustration: ANTI-MACASSAR.]

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NETTED ANTI-MACASSAR.

[Illustration: NETTED ANTI-MACASSAR.]

MATERIALS.--Brooks' Great Exhibition Prize Goat's-head Knitting Cord,
No. 40, and Embroidering Goat's-head Cotton, No. 70; mesh, one-third
of an inch wide.

This anti-macassar is done in the fashionable style of netting, with a
pattern darned on it after it is worked. Make a foundation, on which
work sixty-seven stitches. Repeat these, backwards and forwards, until
a square is done, of as many holes up the sides as along the width.
Remove the foundation, and add either a crochet-bead border all round,
or a netted one. The bead border makes the shape more solid; the
netted one is certainly lighter, and the following is very pretty:--