. St. Nicholas [serial] . CONTINUOUS BRAID PATTERN. 7o PICTURE-JINGLE. [November, the head of this article. Fig. 3 shows still anotherway of folding the paper and running the stitches,which also makes a pattern. To make a braid pattern, take a strip of toughpaper about two feet long and three or four incheswide, fold it in the center with the two ends to-gether, then fold the ends back to the center; foldagain and again, each time back to the center, untilthe paper is about one inch and a half wide, asshown in Fig. 4, or sixteen thicknesses, as in the other form of pattern. Then run a line of
. St. Nicholas [serial] . CONTINUOUS BRAID PATTERN. 7o PICTURE-JINGLE. [November, the head of this article. Fig. 3 shows still anotherway of folding the paper and running the stitches,which also makes a pattern. To make a braid pattern, take a strip of toughpaper about two feet long and three or four incheswide, fold it in the center with the two ends to-gether, then fold the ends back to the center; foldagain and again, each time back to the center, untilthe paper is about one inch and a half wide, asshown in Fig. 4, or sixteen thicknesses, as in the other form of pattern. Then run a line of holesacross, as crooked as you can, beginning at oneside near the end and running off the other sidenear the other end (Fig. 4). This will give you acontinuous braid pattern (Fig. 5), which can beworked without cutting or crossing the can use this as a stencil, by placing it on thegoods to be worked and powdering common bluingthrough the holes. The bluing will leave plainmarks, showing how to arrange the i88o.] FOR VERY LITTLE FOLK. 71
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