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[Illustration: STAR-PATTERN D'OYLEY.]

MATERIALS.--Brooks' Great Exhibition Prize Goat's-head Crochet Cotton,
Nos. 10, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28, 30, and Penelope Crochet Hook, Nos. 3,
3-1/2, 4.

With cotton No. 26, and hook No. 3. For centre star or _a_ work 10
chain, make it round, and in the loop you have formed work 24 d.c.; 1
s.c. in 1st d.c. ** 5 chain, miss 2, 1 s.c. in 3rd, repeat from ** 7
times more; in 1st 5 chain, * 2 long, 7 chain, 2 long in same 5 chain,
5 chain repeat from * in each 5 chain all round, fasten off.

Fasten cotton No. 24, and hook No. 3-1/2. ** In 7 chain 4 long, 4
chain turn and on the 4 chain, miss 1, 1 d.c., 2 long; 4 long in same
7 chain; 2 chain, 1 s.c. in centre of 5 chain; 2 chain repeat ** all
round.

* 2 long, 1 chain, miss 1, 2 long, 1 chain, miss 1, 2 long, 7 chain, 1
long in same as last long, 1 long in next chain, 1 chain, miss 1, 2
long, 1 chain, miss 1, 2 long, miss 4. Repeat all round, * fasten off.

_b_. With cotton No. 24, and hook 3-1/2, 10 chain join round; work in
round loop; 16 d.c.