MY CROCHET SAMPLER.

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MY
CROCHET SAMPLER.

BY
MISS LAMBERT,
AUTHORESS OF THE HAND-BOOK OF NEEDLEWORK,
CHURCH NEEDLEWORK, MY KNITTING
BOOK, ETC. ETC.

WITH
Numerous Illustrations.

NEW-YORK:
D. M. PEYSER, 58 JOHN-ST.,
AND 363 BROADWAY.
1847.

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Leavitt, Trow & Co., Printers,
33 Ann-street.

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PREFACE.

The following pages contain a selection of patternsadapted to almost every purpose to which the art ofCrochet is applicable,—whether as an useful or adecorative species of work. Many of the designshave been expressly composed for this little treatise;others have been selected, as being very effective,from the chapter on Crochet in “The Hand-BookOf Needlework;” but the designs that have beentaken from the latter have been re-engraved.

In the directions for working the several designs,the plan pursued by the writer (and apparently withsuccess) in her books on Knitting, has been adopted.She has aimed at simplicity, and the use of as fewwords as possible, consistent with a clear explanationof the subject.

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The reception given to “My Knitting Book,” asa treatise, separate from other descriptions of DecorativeNeedlework, led her to suppose that a distinctwork on the sister art of Crochet might be equallyacceptable; and the publication of “Das neueHakelbuch Von Miss Lambert,”—a literal translationof the present volume, with its engravings,proves that it has excited some attention, even inGermany, a country which has laid claim to the inventionof the art.

3, New Burlington Street,
Regent Street.

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CONTENTS.