Crochet patterns

From Woman's Weekly, 23rd March 1918.

The Paper With The Best Crochet Patterns!

Instructions inside!

A LOVELY COSY-COVER.

The instructions for working this beautiful Tea-Cosy Design are so simple that anyone could follow them.  Even a beginner would have no difficulty in working this handsome piece of work.

A LITTLE BAG FOR YOUR SUGAR.

This little bag for carrying sugar would make a useful little gift for a girl friend.  Everyone uses them now when going to a restaurant, or a friend's house for tea.

[The tea-cosy cover featured in this post, after I had looked at the 1918 issues of Woman's Weekly in the British Library - we have a tea cosy made to this pattern in the Knitting & Crochet Guild collection.

Sugar was severely rationed by this time, so expecting hosts to provide sugar to go in cups of tea or coffee was evidently considered impolite. Presumably the sugar was in lumps, though the crochet was lined with silk.]