. Fancy work for pleasure and profit. square. Repeat this square in each corresponding point, plac-ing basting from block occupying A position. Confined in thesesquares, pointed blocks are made like those of top figure in sampler (SeeFig. I), leaving a cross-shaped bit of canvas. In following the remainderof this paragraph refer to Detail in Fig. IV. Beginning eight threadsabove block G, and six to left of basting, at point K on Fig. IV, lay fourfour-thread stitches, follow with five eight-thread, and finish with fourfour-thread. Repeat this group at right angles to the first. Changingdirectio
. Fancy work for pleasure and profit. square. Repeat this square in each corresponding point, plac-ing basting from block occupying A position. Confined in thesesquares, pointed blocks are made like those of top figure in sampler (SeeFig. I), leaving a cross-shaped bit of canvas. In following the remainderof this paragraph refer to Detail in Fig. IV. Beginning eight threadsabove block G, and six to left of basting, at point K on Fig. IV, lay fourfour-thread stitches, follow with five eight-thread, and finish with fourfour-thread. Repeat this group at right angles to the first. Changingdirections of each block, work around the inside of square. The blocks which form the inner edge of large connecting squares,and the last to be made, are begun twenty threads above block marked I,the first stitch starting two threads to left of basting (this point is markedL on Fig. II). Follow outline of medallions L to M, etc., as indicated byarrow-heads, always maintaining this twenty-thread distance. After cut- HARDANGER EMBROIDERY. 463. ting, no errors can be rectified, so count blocks, comparing with illustra-tion of Design 2526 (See Fig. II). Cut threads at top of block A, alsoalong inside edge of the two blocks directly above it. The material mustalways be cut at right angles to direction of stitches to prevent to detail in Fig. Ill will show how to continue removing thethreads. I n cuttingcross-shape within me-dallion (See Fig. IV),leave the four centralthreads below eachblock, and with Brain-e r d & ArmstrongsWhite MountmellickSilk, size F or FFweave, as in sampler(See Fig. I), the loosethreads, filling withButtonhole stitches thefour small squareswhose four sides are ofweaving. The four corner squares of the cross have diagonal twistedthreads from center to corners (See Fig. IV). Twenty-eight threads to right and left of A (See Fig. II) and inline with it, make a row of five four-thread blocks (See Fig. IV), fourthreads apart. Starting from first and fifth
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