. Fancy work for pleasure and profit. iven for this articlebe careful to observe that portion of the pat-tern which is shown completed, as this part fig. illustration indicates exactly how the braid should be put into position,as well as the effect of the completed work. An ingenious worker will beable to vary designs shown here, adding a loop or braid here and 4 shows a plate doyley. This treatment is at once effective and simple. In arranging markoff the space in each cornerthat will be required to al-low the four loops of thebraid to be put in; thenmeasure carefully to see
. Fancy work for pleasure and profit. iven for this articlebe careful to observe that portion of the pat-tern which is shown completed, as this part fig. illustration indicates exactly how the braid should be put into position,as well as the effect of the completed work. An ingenious worker will beable to vary designs shown here, adding a loop or braid here and 4 shows a plate doyley. This treatment is at once effective and simple. In arranging markoff the space in each cornerthat will be required to al-low the four loops of thebraid to be put in; thenmeasure carefully to see ifthere will be room enoughbetween the corners for anynumbers of complete loopsof the braid, then add thestar shape in the center andtwo loops of braid at thetop of each corner best filling for a designFIG. 4. when only the corners are to 6e so ornamented is the English wheel shown in the chapter on DrawnWork, as it is more solid than the spider web and gives a better bit of colorwhere colored silk is used to fill in 456 DAINTY WORK FOR PLEASURE AND PROFIT. In arranging designs in Honiton around a border accurate measurementswith the braid must be made so that there shall be no mistake about itscoming out all right. A pretty finish for this design would be to button-hole all the edges, close and firm, with pale green etching silk and then filleach of the open spaces in the corner with a different stitch, say spikestitch—shown on each end of figure 265 on page 252 for one space, spidetweb, shown in center of same figure on page 252 for a second space and forthird space Brussels point or Spanish point—filling each corner differ-ently, using pale green etching silk. Some ladies prefer to do the work with pure white silk, and wherever acolor is used it should be only the daintiest and lightest shade of the colorchosen—yellow, pink, blue, green, violet are all effective. Figure 5 illustrates a pillow cover for infants crib, decorated with the ideal Honiton, a
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