. Fancy work for pleasure and profit. d or silk cord on each side of theFIG. lib. waved line and couch it down with a fine sewing silk; or, work the lines on each side of the raised part with acontinuous line of couching stitches. Battlemented Couching.—Figure 117 showsa flat couching, with the securing threads arranged asbattlemented lines. To work: Lay the filo floss in diag-onal lines across the foundation, then work the securingstitches so as to form the design shown in the illustra-tion. The above pattern is effective as a background forlarge spaces, or for filling in unbroken surfaces of
. Fancy work for pleasure and profit. d or silk cord on each side of theFIG. lib. waved line and couch it down with a fine sewing silk; or, work the lines on each side of the raised part with acontinuous line of couching stitches. Battlemented Couching.—Figure 117 showsa flat couching, with the securing threads arranged asbattlemented lines. To work: Lay the filo floss in diag-onal lines across the foundation, then work the securingstitches so as to form the design shown in the illustra-tion. The above pattern is effective as a background forlarge spaces, or for filling in unbroken surfaces of a set fig. 117. design. It can be varied by placing the securing stitches at differentdistances. Brick Flat Couching.—Figures 118 and 119 show two methods of working brick flat couching. To work the designshown in figure 118, lay down lines of filo flossin a diagonal direction, and secure them withFIG. ii«. stitches from the .back. Pass each stitch over two lines of floss, and work it in at an even distance from the stitch pre-.
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