. Godey's lady's book . 4. Sorrento edging is worked the same as , but alternately, one long stitch about theeighth of an inch, and one short stitch aboutthe sixteenth of an inch. 5. Venetian bars are bars of two or morethreads, covered with a succession of closebuttonhole stitches ; these bars are very fre-quently made to branch in various ways. Theway to do this is to make your straight linefirst, by working buttonhole stitches to whereit branches, then carrying your thread acrossto the required place a sufficient number oftimes, and then work as before. 6. Edged Venetian bars is the sam
. Godey's lady's book . 4. Sorrento edging is worked the same as , but alternately, one long stitch about theeighth of an inch, and one short stitch aboutthe sixteenth of an inch. 5. Venetian bars are bars of two or morethreads, covered with a succession of closebuttonhole stitches ; these bars are very fre-quently made to branch in various ways. Theway to do this is to make your straight linefirst, by working buttonhole stitches to whereit branches, then carrying your thread acrossto the required place a sufficient number oftimes, and then work as before. 6. Edged Venetian bars is the same bar withany of the other edgings worked upon it. -« -O • »-*- BABYS BOOT. IN KNITTING AND i1 WORK DEPARTMENT. 291 HANDKERCHIEF SACHET. (See engraving, page 228.) These little articles being once again a re-quisite for the carriage, if not for the promenade,we supply a design for one which has a verypretty effect when completed. It may be workedeither on canvas or velvet, the latter, of course,much lessening the labor of its outer border is formed of violet-colored silkbraid, fastened down with a row of gold beadsat each edge, and having a line of herringbonein maize-color netting silk down its two flowers which appear at the top and bottom of the oval are in clear white, havinggold centres ; the spray work is in strings ofclear white beads, each part being tipped withthree beads one size larger, in chalk worked upon canvas, and the ground filledin with Berlin wool, this part should be donebefore the spray work is introduced, as thislooks much the best when done in short stringsof beads rather than with a bead at a timeworked upon the thre
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