Smocking, fancy stitches, and cross stitch and darned net designs . n arranging this smocking forthe yoke of a dress wrapper, etc., the ruffle may beplaced at the neck, carefully hemmed or faced andtacked to form a shell niching, which may lie upona pretty ruff of lace, crepe lisse, etc. The separated rope-stitch is used at figure No. 17jthere are two lines of separated stitches above a frilland above these a double lattice design is done withseparated stitches accurately spaced. Figure No. 18 illustrates two rows of the diamondsmocking with a row of the fancy smocking bet-ween. This is done b
Smocking, fancy stitches, and cross stitch and darned net designs . n arranging this smocking forthe yoke of a dress wrapper, etc., the ruffle may beplaced at the neck, carefully hemmed or faced andtacked to form a shell niching, which may lie upona pretty ruff of lace, crepe lisse, etc. The separated rope-stitch is used at figure No. 17jthere are two lines of separated stitches above a frilland above these a double lattice design is done withseparated stitches accurately spaced. Figure No. 18 illustrates two rows of the diamondsmocking with a row of the fancy smocking bet-ween. This is done by making one row of the dia-mond smocking as deep as desired and gathering itFigure No. 18. f r t> & Pigtoes Nos. 16,17 and Rope- UP at both ends as described for the fancy smock- Stitching for Fancy Smocking. jn„ Three simjlar r0WS of gatherings are(For Descriptions of Figures Nos. 16, 17 and 18, see ,,.„,,??, , • j j. xi n i Ornamental Stitching for Fancy Smocking.) made till the depth desired tor the fancy smock- Fiqtjre No. DARNED-NET DESIGNS, ETC. 11
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