. Fancy work for pleasure and profit. once instead of twice. Tent stitch is shown in fig-ure 152 and is simply the first half ofcross stitch, the silk or wool passingover one or two threads of canvas ina diagonal direction. Raised Stitch.—This stitch is used for raised woolwork, and canbe worked to any height by usingTENT STITCH. FIG. 152. various sizcd meshes, and then cut and combed until the wool attains the softness of velvet pile. To make:Use a No. 4 knitting needle. The first stitch is a tent stitch. Bring theneedle up where the stitch began, push the knitting needle over the tentstitch
. Fancy work for pleasure and profit. once instead of twice. Tent stitch is shown in fig-ure 152 and is simply the first half ofcross stitch, the silk or wool passingover one or two threads of canvas ina diagonal direction. Raised Stitch.—This stitch is used for raised woolwork, and canbe worked to any height by usingTENT STITCH. FIG. 152. various sizcd meshes, and then cut and combed until the wool attains the softness of velvet pile. To make:Use a No. 4 knitting needle. The first stitch is a tent stitch. Bring theneedle up where the stitch began, push the knitting needle over the tentstitch and make a gobelin stitch over it, putting the needle in two threadsabove the place where it came out. It is now at the bottom of the next stitchto be made, which is a tent stitch. Repeat the process described work is commenced from the bottom, and the knitting needle left inlowest row until the row above it is completed; this prevents any draggingof the wool. Cut and comb out all the loojs wlien the woil: is BERLIN EMBROIDERY. M7
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