Materials – A filigree gold chalice; a skein of emerald green silk; a little scarlet, black, violet, and white ditto; six skeins of gold thread; green cord for strings, to match the green silk, and green and gold slides.

Begin on a chain of eight, close it into a round, and work a dc stitch on every stitch, with a chain between every two.  In the next round dc under a chain, * 1 dc under same, 1 ch, 1 dc under the next chain, * all round.  In the following round, dc under every chain, with 1 chain after 1 dc, and 2 chain after the next, alternately all round.  In this way increase gradually, until in the ninth round there are 132 stitches altogether.  Do four rounds of sc, and then begin the pattern.  The design is repeated six times in every round.

1st pattern round. – * 4 gold, 5 green, 2 gold, 4 green, 2 gold, 5 green, * 6 times.

2d. – *  4 gold (over 4), 6 green, 2 gold, 2 green, 2 gold, 6 green, *.

3d. – * 1 green, 2 gold, 8 green, 1 gold, 2 green, 1 gold, 7 green, *.

4th. – * 1 green, 2 gold, 2 green, 3 gold, 3 green, 4 gold, 3 green, 3 gold, 1 green, *.

5th. – * 8 gold, 4 green, 2 gold, 4 green, 4 gold, *.

6th. – Gold over gold, and green over green, of last round.  One more gold.  Fasten off green.

7th. – White and Gold, *, 2 gold, 2 white, 3 gold, 4 white, 2 gold, 4 white, 3 gold, 2 white, *.

8th. – Same colors, *, 2 gold, 9 white, 2 gold, 9 white, *.  Fasten off white.

9th. – Scarlet and gold.  Gold over gold, scarlet over white, of last round.

10th.-- Like 9th. – Fasten off scarlet.

11th. – Black and gold, *, 2 gold, 8 black, 4 gold, 8 black, *.

12th. – Same colors with violet.  *, 2 gold, 7 black, 2 gold, 2 violet,  2 gold, 7 black, *.  Fasten off black, and join on the green.

13th. and 14th. – like 12th, but with green instead of black.

15th. – 2 gold, 8 green, 4 gold, 8 green, *.

16th. – 2 gold, 5 green, 2 gold, 2 green, 2 gold, 2 green, 2 gold, 5 green, *.

17th. – * 2 gold, 4 green, 4 gold, 1 green, 2 gold, 1 green, 4 gold, 4 green, *.

18th. – * 2 gold, 2 green, 3 gold, 2 violet, 6 gold, 2 violet, 3 gold, 2 green, *.

This round being the last of one-half of the pattern, the remainder is to be done from the description already written, working backwards from the 18th to the 1st, inclusive of both.  Then do three rounds of sc, with the green silk only, and follow it by two rounds of open square crochet, in the same color.  Both these rounds must have only one chain between every two dc.

Gold lace * 8 dc under one chain, 1 ch, miss 2 dc and the one chain between them, 1 sc under the next chain, 1 ch, miss the same, * repeat all round.  Fasten on the chalice, at the first round of sc.  Run the cord in the open crochet rounds at the top, and connect the joinings of the cord with the gold slides.