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Table Runner

(20

.). 3 balls selected color.

MATERIALS:

Coats Chain

Mercer-Crochet

No. 20

Milwarda Steel Crochet

No. 3. (Slack workers

Hook

buld

use No. 2 hook and tight workers a No. 24).

TENSION: 5 rows) in. (2.5)

rm.).

MEASUREMENTS: 36 in. x

11 in. (91.4 cm,

x 28 cm.). ABBREVIATIONS; ch--chuko, ally stitch; de double crochet tr-treble; sp-Aper-

DIRECTIONS

Commence with 143 ch.

1st Row: tr into 4th ch from hook, tr into next ch, * (8 ch. miss 3 ch, 1 tr into each of next 3 ch) 3 úmes, 0 ch, miss 8 el, de luto each of next 7 ch, B ch, miss 3 ch, 1 tr into each of twice next 2 ch; repeat from

mory. (3 ch, miss 3 ch, 1 tr into each of next 3 eh) 3 mes. 3

ch, turn,

1 1r 2nd Kow: Miss first fr, Into each of next 2 tr • 43 cb. ir into each of next 3 ) 3 times, 7 el, mis

the Bater

ebet of next 5 de, 7ch, 1 tr inter cach of next 3. at from ⚫ ending with (3 ch, 1 tr lalo

each of next 3 tr wire, 3 ch.

1 tr into each of next 2 r, 1 tr

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1956,

PRACTICAL HOMECRAFT

i de into each of next 6 de, 1 loop, ch, I de into next sp

into top of turning ch. 3 ch, de ime next leợp, 6 ch, 1 tr into repeat from to corner, (7 ch each of next 3 r; repent from 1 de into next sp) twles, 7 ch. ch, les 1 ending with (3 ch, 1 ir into 1 de Into corner,

de into next row and each of next 3 tr) twice, 3 ch, row end,

Continue in this manner along long alde ending with 1 de into (de into last row end, 7 ch next sp; repeat from first omit- ing 1 de at end of last repeat, Is into Arst de.

turn.

3rd Row: Miss Brat tr. I r into each of nex: 2 tr, (2 ch, 1 ir into each of next 3 in 1 tr into each of next 2 tr, i tr

limes. 8 eh, inlss 1 de, 1 de intes each of next 3 de, & ch, I t into each of next 3 tr, repeat from ending with fa di, 1 tr into each of ars: 3 In twice, 3

ch, i to into each of next 2 1

in

into top of turning eh, 3 ch, turn,

Repeat 2 to Di rows

measures clusive until runner 34 in. (90.3 mm.) ending with 9th row.

Repeat 2nd to Dit rows in- clusive until runner measures 34 the into top of turning cb, in. (88.3 cm.) ending with 9th

ch, turn.

a

4th Row: Miss fr

into each of next 2 tr,

} tr (3 ch.

Tow.

Fasten off.

tr

Into each of next 3 tr) 3

BORDER

ฺ 1

2nd Bow: sa to centro of next loop, I de into same loop. eh, 1 de into next loop; repeat

⚫ to corner from

Into corner loop work i de 7 ch and

dc,

do into next loop;

to next

times, B ch, nilss 1 de, de intor 1st Row: Attach thread to end repeat from Inst next de. 9 ch, 1 tr into each of sp on starting ch, 1 de into same corner, into corner loop work i next 3 ir: repeat from cuding place as join, work along short de 7 ch and i de. Now work 1 de other 2 sides to correspond, end- with (3 ch. I ir into each of side as follows: ( ch,

Into next sp) twice, 7 ch, 1 de ing with 7 ch, 1 ss into drst de,

Fasten off. Into next loop. 7 ch, le into same place us centre f de group, 7 ch, 1 de

next 3 tr) twice, 3 ch. 1 tr into each of next 2 ir, i ir into top of turning ch. 3 ch, tur

5th Row: Miss first tr, 1 tr

into each of next 2 tr. (3 ch,

into

1 tr into each of next 3 tr) 3 times, 6 ch. I dbl tr into next 9 ch loop, 5 ch. 1 di tr next & ch loop, 6 ch. It into each of next 3 tr: repeat from coding with (3 ch. 1 tr into into cach of next 3 tr) twice, 3 ch, 1 tr into each of next 2 tr. I tr into top of turning ch, 3 ch, turn,

6th Row: Miss Arst tr. I tr into each of next 2 ir, (3 ch.

1 tr into each of next 3 tr) 3

Damp and pin out to measure-

of next into next ments.

Knit While You Relax

BEADED JUMPER

MATERIALS: 15 size, 5 025. Lister's Lavenda 2 Ply. 2nd size 6. ozs. Lister's Lavendu 2 Ply. 3rd size,'7'oza, Lister's Lavenda 2 ply. oz. Bends. Pair each needles Nos. 11, 12, and 13. 4 Ins. Zip Fastenor. i Safety Pin. MEASUREMENTS: To A 32- 34 (34-30) (30-38) Ins, bus measureinent. Length

from shoulder, 10 (10) [18] Ins.

TENSION: 5%

and 11 rows equal one inch (No. 11 noedies).

N.B: The tension of the knit- ing controls the size

the finished garment. Before com- |mencing cast un 17 18

UTALS

work in one row knit one row

Cast of 10 ets, at beginning of next 20 rows, Leave remain- Ing 70 sis, on a spare needle.

Shape shouldern: 2nd size:

Cast off 11 sis. at beginning. of next 6 rows, then cast off 10-

of next 13 sts at beginning rows. Leave remaining 78 st. on a spare needle.

Shape shoulders: 3rd size: Cast of 11 áls, at beginning of next lű rows, then cast of 10 sts, at beginning of next 4 rows. Leave remaining 78 sta. on B spare needle.

Work Ds

FRONT

Back uni!! work from

Puri for 22 rows. ir your measures 4 (4) [4] ins, sample has lesa als. per Inch cast on 12 sta

than our tension, try again withi Soulier needles and vice versa, then work the garment on Thá ncodles which produce our Lension.

CASTING ON: Thumb method: 2 yards from the end twist the wool round the left thumb to make a loop and knit. this loop onto the Hol the ball of wool.

from

required number of sts are on the needle making the loop from the 2 yards and knitting from the ball. This method of cast ing on should always be used.

ABBREVIATIONS: K. knit; P. puri; sta, stitches; ins. inches; tog. together; st.st. stocking slitch: which is the smooth side of one row kalt one row purl; S.K.P.O, slip one, kalt one pass alipped sl. over; KZIN. knit

Shape Neck:

1st row: K, 120 (180) [134] sis., k.å tog., lurn.

2nd cow: P.3 tog, purl to end. ard row: Knit to within 2 sis., k.2 tog.

4th row: P.2 tog, puri to endi Repeat 3rd and 4th rows three (three) [three] times more.

Shape shoulder: 1st size: Ist row: Cust off 10 sta knit to within 2 sts, k2 tog.

2nd row: P.2 tog, purl to end times more. Cast off 10 sts.

Repeat 1st and 2nd rows eight

Shape Shoulder: 2nd size: 1 row: Cast of 11 sts, knit to within 2 sis, ka tog

2nd row: P.2 tog, puri to end. Repeat 1st and 2nd rows three times more,

sta,

tow: Cast off 10 knit to within 2 sts, k2 tog 10th row: F tog, puri end

wice into st, le, into front and then into back of st; S1B1, slip one, bead one, with wool to tront of work slip one st, place one bead to front of slipped state.

wool back.

follow To work 2nd size figures in parentheses (); To work 3rd size follow figure in bruckets).

BACK

Using No. 13 needles cast on 120 (134) 142] sts, und wark in Ki, Pi, rib for 4 (4) [4] ins.

Change to No. 11 needles and stat (1st row knit) increasing one st, at each end of 3rd and following 6th row until every 144 (162) [160] $15. Arc neodle.

Now increase one st. at each end of every row until there are 200 (214) [222] sta, on needle.

Now cast on 12 (12) [12] sts. at end of next 6 rows. 278 (280) [294] sts.

Continue on these sts. un work casures 6 (5) [5] ins, from earl on 12 sts.

Shape shoulders: lat size: Right side facing.

Is Acne

TPS

to

and 10th Repeat 9th

rows four time more, Cast of 10

Shape Shoulder: 3rd size:

ist row: Cast oft 11 sta knit to within 2 me, k.2 tog.

2nd row: P.2 tog. purl to end. Repeat 1st and 2nd rows seven times more.

17th row: Cast off 10 sts, knit to within 2 ss., k.2 tog.

18th row: P2 tog., purl to end. Cast of 10 sts.

Return to remaining sis, slip first 22 sts, ante safety pln, rejoin wool and work to match other side,

BACK YOKE (Thread 377 beads onto wool): With

right sido

work of facing, rejoin wool and using No. 12 needles knit across ss of Back to within 2 sts, k2 lóg. (77 st.).

** 1st and each alternate row: Purk

to

2nd row: K.1, SKPO, L1, * SIB1, "ki, repeat from within 5 sts., S1B1..ki, k.2 tog, k.1.

twelve

Repeat these 2 rows times mort.

Bothering You?-Stay

Away From Chocolate

shoulder. (85 sts.). Work as 27th row: Knit. 28th TOW: K2IN, knit to Back Yake from to **. within one at, K2IN.

29th row: Purl. Report 28th and once more.

29th

Join right shoulder spam. Turn neck facing onto wrong rows side and hem down neatly.

Join left shoulder seam to within 4 Ins, of neck. Sow in Zip Fastener.

ARM BANDS

(Thread 224 beads onto wool); (182 cach Aizaband).

Purl

ist and cach alternata row:

2nd row: K.1, SIBI, K.1, repeat from to within 2 sts, 61B1. k.1.

4th row: K.2, SIB1, k.1, re- peat from to within i st., k.1.

Repeat theso

once 4 rowe more.

Cast off.

Cast off. ** FRONT YOKE (Thread 429 beads onto wool); With right side of work facing. and commencing at left front shoulder, rejoin wool and using

With right side of 'work No. 12 needles pick up and knit

at facing, rejoin wool and using 31 ste, to sta on safety pin froot: knit across these 23 sts.; No. 12 needles pick up and knit ing ribbed welts. Join pick up and knit 32 sta. to right 63 sts. along sleeve edge.

TO MAKE UP

Pin out and press on wrong side under a damp cloth avoid-

seams. Press all seams.

SOMETIMES EXPERIENCE IS

BEST THROWN AWAY

By ANNE HEYWOOD

sido

After she finished the course, There's no excuse, really, for Y mother had a friend

office people to put in a lifetime at who was a wonderful wo went after a job as

After ali small company work they hate. manager in a dressmaker. But she had where office management in we frequently take our training one big

supervising, when we're too young to know trouble she valved hiring and

Better She what we really want a as well as bookkeeping couldn't bear. to throw

got it and she loves

than being stuck with it for scrap of materiał away.

She's still using the book- life, resolve to add to it the extent but akills you really love and make If there was a piece left over, keeping to some other some kind of combination." she would

extra sho's doing make an flounce, a big bow or a side panel and she would ruin the whole dress,

By HERMAN N: BUNDESEN, M.D. important for those personal physician, there are foods which generally

I think of her when I hear of you with acne

to soude

should be excluded entirely or people say, "I hate the Job I'm avoid certain foods.

way the caten only in moderate amounts. in, but I can't throw While an individual

is the experience," or "I'm not fond probably Chocolate your should be prescribed by

chlet offender. Most doctors of the field I'm in, but I put in routinely insist that their acne two years of education for palents refrain from eating and you can't throw that away." chocolate in any form, including cocon

diet

LAMB PILAFF SEASONED

WITH CRUSHED

CRUSHED MINT

into next 5 ch loop, ↑ ch, "THIS

into each of next 3 tr repeat

times, 9 ch, miss next loop, 1 do 667THIS kitchen of Mrs

i tr

America is positive ending with (3 ch. 1 trily a glamorous into each of next 3 ts) twice, marked the Chef. "It is a

from

one," re

By IDA BAILEY ALLEN

it

They're a lot like my mother's friendthey're so anxious to Usually, it's also a good idea use every scrap of their train- fountaining and experience, that they to avoid certain soda

whole success of the drinks alcoholic beverages, rich ruin the cream, homogenized milk, pea- production.

and nut buiter, nuts, greasy fatty foods and thick gravies.

Don't drink tea or coffes ex- tomato cessively, either.

Cover;

making, budgeting, entertaining Stir in 1 (8 oz) tin

Eat only moderate amounts of everything that goes into that sauce and 1 c. water,

bread, butter, chocac, ice cream, fascinating complex career called simmer 4 hr. homemaking.

Meantime, cover 11⁄2 c. raw pastries and starch foods... rice with scalding hot water. It's all right to eat egzas, and all fruits and Let stand 10 min.

potatoes + Rinse with cold water. Add 2 vegetables. c. cold water and heat. When bolling, add 1 tsp. salt and 1⁄4

"I love this kitchen, aho went ch, 1 tr into each of next 2 x tribute to the art of fine on. "It's large and there is ample storage space in cach Tutenalis and to store

1 ir into top of turning eh, a ch, cooking that, today, as area

This

turn.

7th Row: Miss first tr. 1 tr much thought is being materials needed at that point. into each of next 2 tr. (3 ch, spent on kitchen planning times, 8 ch, i de into next loop,

.1 tr into each of next 3.) and decorating as on other the le a kitchen that 11 tsp. each pepper and cinnamon

3

de into next de, 1 de into next rooms."

Inop,

*** Baid Mrs America."

You can have almost any kind

things along with it, working with people which the Taves. Eventually, perhaps, she'll be able to delegate the book keeping entirely,

It im't necessary to throw away the training entirely, but neither is it necessary to have a lifetime of discontent!

Furniture Finishes Make News

MODUL

By ELEANOR ROSS

TODEL display rooms in the living room. There were 4puches of white and charcoal, more inviting and brass was used for lamps. Mary was in that position than ever. Probably the We especially liked the charcoal Mary had trained to be a book most newsworthy feature lacquered coffee table, keeper, "Because bookkeepers in these displays is the can always get a job.”

rostful Bedrooms were growing importance of stimulating, too. furniture finishes,

There's

Jet

she got.

Yet, Mary Hated every 10b

MASCULINE AIR But sho couldn't

One store built a smart series

Cho zoom featured greep, A change because how could she

of rooms around a delightful new

a lively throw away all that training?

finish, topaz mahogarty. Anique deep olive tone and

with a brass trims was alred to point sprout groen, togelber When I met her, Mary

delightful cerulean blue, White might I cook for Turn the meat into a 10′′ x 12′′ of meat except pork and sausage, thirty-one and Ipoked forty, She up the patina

Modern and easy traditional shades on brass lamps added

ady but not Saturday dinner for my family pan. Carefully spoon the rice You may eat fish and seafoods had had two years of training

[a" hearty, bookkeeping, plus eleven have been successfully, mixed in graceful noto. a except those that are rich in in 8 ch. 1 tr into each of next Mrs America flashed a sunny she continued "Since I am an around Bake 1***

a50emin moderato oven,

lodines such

oysters and years of experience. She would, rich colourful settings. Every 8 tr: repeat from ending with amite. She's Mrs Cleo

Malatis American of Greek descent, the

if she changed to a better, gald, room has a touch of gold or heavy, masculino air about this ascond bedroom. The two colours. yellow. (3 ch. 1 tr into each of next 3 from Portland, Oregon, mother mala dish might be lamb and Tun the rise over 3 times to me, you see, usually og be throwing away, thirteen

used tobacco brown' and white, cook and brown evenly. Serve Iodines, tr) wice, 3 chi ir into each of of three sturdy youngsters, eges rice pilan.”

year a heated platter.

VIBRANT TONE are flod in, by the rug which he Gornish gravate a case of uene. next 2 tr ir into top of turningsovan, five and two.

a large brown and white block. with parsley,

For this aduson, you probably

But and this is the Important

the kind design. The decorators cleverly In one dining room, the kin Zucchini Parmesan Wash, but should not use lodised alt

be

that would appeal too bright used bookcases with greduated wwhich tak ́away do not peol, 1 fender cobai while trying to clear up a logo part-If she stayed," she'd

throwing away her whole life young modern vibrant lemon glass gives bromides för excis person Halve Tength that

Assuming that, Ailetype, yellow was used with nasturtium the healy four-to-hero kone either. Wiso

In addition to, eating the fight she had even twenty-five years, and enough white to one things the usual shelves,hers were Bimmer-boll until fork

knick-knacks as well filled sooperare of more ko, pg, she'd be throwing down. The wall were, in yellow, alle was knick-knacke

twenty lyg youring the rug, Mastimilum, the window

ch, 8 ch, fumm.

"I didn't dream lost May that RUN DINNER

8th How! Miss first r, 1 I would win the Mrs Amerion Toaned Salad Shrimp Garnisli Into each of next 2 tr, (3 ch, competition," she said, "but I

tr. Into each of next 3 tr) 3 thought it would be fun to try.

times, 7 ch, I de into. next Toop, So when time came for the finals

1

do into each of fäxt-3 de 1

do into next loop, 7 ch, 1 trinh Florida, my husband, Chris,

each of next 8. ir: report from

ending with (ach

of hext 3 tr) 'iwice,"

Inig ch of next 2.ur,

burning ch. 9 ch,

top of ch. 3.

cach

to take his accompany me.

arranged to And need

vacation

Lamb and Rice Filan

Zucchini Parmesan Gerla Brench Cantaloupe a la Mode

1 tr for their husbands and them

“AU, thì finalists, kept houso Recipes Prep: ir into solves for a wook, in identical 2% birds, collages. Each wife had the of an

come, gmount of money to spend Brown for food and the same type of heavy To each of next a try projects to carry cut-lautukazy, Ada

intereach of next a 't, (3 ch,

* ch 1 de into next looping cleaning, saying,

and

On

In

over thought of it a covered with a matchalck We liked the gold coin-dotted

while nylon cafe, curtains, "Als yage her a stripes of yellow, and "hurium; = new, strong non-tarnishable working with yarn: Screens, fedged, in: bamboo metallic het weed, as a canopy for,

"than "ep with yellow

and orange : yarn, za bed which was covered with a

Khelle teleta in white. THE

"would be delightrul

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