The Priscilla smocking book, a collection of beautiful and useful patterns, with directions for working . -dinary uses. Of course, if you fail to make yourtoiiil without shirring, you will have to resort toshirred lines until you are a more independent worker. Spacing Points. — There is no inflexible rule forspacing points, as points are used large or small, assuits the requirements of the work and the taste ofthe worker. (See Figs. 18 and 19.) Count yourdiamonds when across the line. Divide the numberc\enly if you can, or unevenly, if you must. Makeas many points as required, using the same n
The Priscilla smocking book, a collection of beautiful and useful patterns, with directions for working . -dinary uses. Of course, if you fail to make yourtoiiil without shirring, you will have to resort toshirred lines until you are a more independent worker. Spacing Points. — There is no inflexible rule forspacing points, as points are used large or small, assuits the requirements of the work and the taste ofthe worker. (See Figs. 18 and 19.) Count yourdiamonds when across the line. Divide the numberc\enly if you can, or unevenly, if you must. Makeas many points as required, using the same numberof stitches in all. If you have twenty-five diamondsyou can have five points of four diamonds each,leaving always a space between the points of one ilia-mond in the first row. As rows increase the spaceincreases in proportion, as you drop one-half dia-mond on either side as you proceed or narrow yourwork. Suppose you find you have twenty-live dia-monds in all; you must start four points of fourdiamonds each, making twenty diamonds. Now youha\e one extra rlinnimd In jiri^-irlc f^ir nnrl rmi use. IlG. Jb, IX V.\NnVKl: page Stitch. See hig. 17 and 12 ii this in the ccntrt- or third point to advantage, as itusually looks better to have the centre of the gar-ment with a deeper point than the other points. Tlieillustration shows a point of nine diamonds. Figure19 shows a point of six diamonds, and one readilyunderstands that points are not arbitrary factors, butare quite a yard handkerchief linen, for collar,vestee, and culTs. The applied hems were finishedon their edges with a reversed over-and-over stitch(see Fig. -4), and joined to collar, cuffs, an
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