Smocking, fancy stitches, and cross stitch and darned net designs . card are marked by dots on the goods the cardis moved aloqg or down, as required, withone row of holes over the last row of dotsmade. The dots are caught together as ex-plained in the American method, with thisdifference — the thread is brought diagonallyunderneath, as shown at figure No. 10, insteadof straight up and down as in the methodabove described. Care should be taken notto draw the threads too tightly. When thework is properly done the back of the smock-ing will appear as at figure No. 11. Thesmocking is done in lines
Smocking, fancy stitches, and cross stitch and darned net designs . card are marked by dots on the goods the cardis moved aloqg or down, as required, withone row of holes over the last row of dotsmade. The dots are caught together as ex-plained in the American method, with thisdifference — the thread is brought diagonallyunderneath, as shown at figure No. 10, insteadof straight up and down as in the methodabove described. Care should be taken notto draw the threads too tightly. When thework is properly done the back of the smock-ing will appear as at figure No. 11. Thesmocking is done in lines from top to bot-tom, one line being finished before anotheris commenced; and the thread should alwaysbe kept to the right of the needle. Two orthree over-and-over stitches will suffice to make the fastening, and care should be taken not to entangle the threads in the folds onwrong Figure No. 13. Figures Nos. 12 and 13.—Fancy Stitching forDiamond Smocking. (For Descriptions of Figures Nos. 12 and 13, seeFancy Stitching for Diamond Smocking.) the DARNED-NET DESIGNS, ETC. FANCY STITCHING FORDIAMOND SMOCKING. Figures Nos. 12 and 13.—FancyStitching for Decorating DiamondSmocking or Honey-Combing.—Embroidery silk or floss of anypreferred shade may be used forthese stitches. Pass the needlefrom underneath, bringing itthrough just under a tacking; thencarry the thread over the tacking,pass the needle under the tackingfrom the top and out through thefold at the left end of the tacking;then carry it across, inserting theneedle at the left end of the tack-ing and drawing it out through theright fold just below the tacking,as shown by figures Nos. 12 and13. Figure No. 12 shows the firsttwo insertions of the needle, andfigure No. 13 the last or finishingstitch. The stitching is done indiagonal rows that run in two di-rections.
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