MATERIALS —Three reels of Brooks’ No. 24, and two of No. 16, Great Exhibition Prize Goat’s-head Crochet Cotton. A hook suitable for the fine number.

The octagon shape is one extremely well adapted for bread baskets, as well as for papier-maché trays of the usual forms; but it requires a little nicety to produce even edges at the sloping sides. The way it is done is this. The whole pattern, it will be perceived, is done in square crochet, and in the increasing sides a close square is added at each end.

The pattern is from late 1800s.

MATERIALS..—Brooks’ Great Exhibition Prize Goat’s-head Crochet Cotton, Nos. 14, 16, 18, 20. Walker’s Penelope Hook, No. 3.

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