The household (of the Detroit free press)

For a child three or four years old, buy four skeins of the very best Germantown yarn (it is as soft as zephyr and wears better) ; have one skein two shades darker than the others, and one two shades darker still than that — Nos. 4, 6 and 8 of scarlet make a handsome one. Have two needles about twelve inches long, with a knob on one end (so the work will not slip off) and about one-eighth of an inch thick. You can judge of the size by buying one on rule or tape measure. You can get them made of large wire at the tin shop. Cast on 320 stitches of the darkest shade ; knit the first row plain across, seam all the second row, knit plain the third. The pearl side is the right side. Fourth row — knit the first stitch, take up a loop and knit it to make a stitch, knit two ; now you have four. Slip off the next without knitting it ; narrow the next, bind the one you slipped over the one you narrowed ; knit three, put thread around the needle to make a stitch, knit one, put thread around again, knit three, slip one, narrow, FRINGE AND BORDER. 217 and so on across the needle ; seam all the way back, knit the pattern row three times across and seam back ; break the thread and join the next lighter shade; knit plain, knit plain again to bring the pearl on the right side ; seam back, knit plain, begin the pattern again, knit nine scollops deep, then slip and bind it all off, sew it up ; this is the skirt. For the waist, cast on 170 stitches, knit eight scollops deep of one color, then knit forty stitches, bind off the next ten, knit seventy, bind off ten, knit forty. Take a darning-needle and twine, and slip off two of these parts on the string, knit one at a time until the three are knit three scollops deep, taking care to keep the pattern the same, then join all on one needle, and at the joining narrow twice every time across for three patterns deep, then narrow every four or five stitches down to seventy or eighty stitches and bind off. Set up sixty stitches for the sleeve, knit ten deep, sew up and in, sew on the skirt, finish all round with a crocheted edge, cut one thread where the button-hole comes, overcast the holes, and crochet covers for buttons. Put a large cord in around the waist and neck finished with balls or tassels. EGG BASKETS. A round cardboard box about twenty-two inches in circumference for the foundation. For an outside cover take shaded moss and bright green wool and make a band of looped knitting as follows : Cast on twenty-four inches; knit first row plain. Second Row — Insert the right-hand pin into the first loop of next row ; turn the wool three times over the pin and round the fore-finger, draw all three loops through in the ordinary way ; knit one. Repeat to the end of row. Third Row — Knit plain, taking the three loops of last row as one stitch ; second and third rows are repeated until twenty-two inches are worked, then cast off, join round, sew neatly to the outside of the box and fill the outside of the box half full of wadding and then put in the lining.