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The Big Cross

Purpose: Bookmark for bibie or prayer book Yarn: D.M.C. No. 30 Size: 11 cm. (4§in.) cord

Abbreviations: Number = number of double stitches between the picots, R = ring, C = chain, + = joining, — = picot Number of shuttles: One, and second thread

Begin with the three-leaved clover at the inner edge of the right horizontal section.

Three-leaved clover: R5 — 5 — 5 — 5. R 5 + 5 — 5 — 5 (the middle picot needs to be quite long). R5 + 5— 5 — 5. C5 — 5. R5-I-5 — 5 — 5.

C5—5. R5 + 5 —5 — 5. C5—5—5 — 5. R5—5 + 5 — 5.

C5—5—5 —5. R5—5 + 5 —5. C5—5. R5 + 5 + 5—5. C5 —5. Make another three-leaved clover and work towards the top of the upright. The flo wer at the top: Three-lea ved clo ver :R5—5 — 5 — 5.

R5 + 5—5 — 5. R5 + 5 — 5 — 5. C25—5 (shouldnot be tautly pressedtogether). R5 — 5+ (the tip of the cross) — 5.

The second flo wer as well as the other half of the cross are mirror-worked.

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