The crochet book, seventeenth series, containing the prize medal antimacassars in raised crochet (1870)
Riego de la Branchardiere, Eleonore · London : Simpkin · leaf 47
35 INSTRUCTION, AND EXPLANATION OF TERMS. … PLAIN STITCH.' Put the needle into a stitch ot the work, draw the thread through in a loop, as A, B ; take up the thread again, C, and draw it through the two loops on the needle.
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