CHAIR CUSHION.

MATERIALS.--Brooks' Great Exhibition Prize Goat's-head Knitting Cord,
No. 40, or 60, with a suitable hook.

This is a new and extremely pretty kind of cushion, for the back of a
chair, which renders an ordinary seat almost as commodious as a
professedly _easy_ chair.

A small cushion is made, just the length of the back of the chair, and
narrow in the proportion seen in the engraving, which is covered
either with Berlin-wool work, or (as we have designed) with crochet.
It is suspended from the top of the chair by ribbons or cords; and the
lower edge is finished with either fringe or tassels. We have
given two sizes of cotton as suitable for this purpose, as the
dimensions must depend on those of the chair. The pattern requires a
foundation chain of 274 stitches, and if No. 40 cord is used, and an
ordinary hook suitable for it, the length will be as nearly as
possible, half a yard. Should the chair not be so wide, the same
number of stitches, _with a finer cord_, will decrease the cushion
cover; if required larger, for any purpose whatever, by using a
coarser material the same design will be proportionably increased.

And here we may be allowed to suggest a purpose to which this pattern
is peculiarly applicable, and which will be found an article extremely
beneficial to "the neat-handed Phillis."

[Illustration: CHAIR CUSHION.]