Materials: Fine canvas; 3 shades of violet floss silk; 4 shades of green
floss silk; sea-green wool, or floss silk; 1 skein of yellow floss silk;
green chenille; cord and tassels.
[Illustration: 196.--Pattern for What-not (full size).]
This small what-not or jewel-stand is very elegant. It is meant to place
upon the toilet-table. No. 195 shows the hammock when completed, No. 196
one-half of the embroidery pattern in full size; it is worked upon fine
canvas. The violets are in floss silk of three shades of violet, with
a raised spot worked in yellow silk in the centre, the leaves are worked
in Berlin wool of various shades of green, and the stems in overcast of
a light green shade. The pattern is grounded in tent stitch with
sea-green silk. The hammock is composed of two sides and an under-piece
cut out in cardboard, covered with the embroidered canvas outside, lined
and quilted with plain green silk inside. It is edged round the top with
green chenille. The mounting is composed of bamboo-canes; the hammock is
fastened on to it with green silk cord, finished off with tassels.
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197.--_Embroidered Handkerchief_.
Materials: Grass lawn or French cambric; Messrs. Walter Evans and Co.'s
embroidery cotton No. 40.
This embroidery pattern is worked between the borders of a handkerchief,
which may be either of French cambric or grass lawn. The design is
simple, but effective, and very easy to work. If worked on fine French
cambric, the handkerchief should be lightly tacked upon _toile cirée_.
The rows of raised dots should be worked first, and then the graceful
branches of pointed leaves in satin stitch. The plain round dots might
be worked in bright red marking cotton in either of the patterns. To
produce a good effect, rather fine cotton must be selected, and No. 40
will be found very effective on either lawn or cambric. For mourning
wear, this pattern should be embroidered with black filoselle, or the
leaves can be worked in white cotton, and the dots in filoselle.
[Illustration: 197.--Handkerchief Border.]
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