Archer, Effie Archer · Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, Page & company · leaf 159
running stitches and one back-stitch to insurefirmness in the starting. Let your thread come up 132 NEEDLECRAFT slightly under the lower line of the buttonholing.With your left thumb holding the thread down tothe material draw your thread to the right, take astitch over the padding, bringing the… … Fig. 117. A simple scallop it is to make a good corner and to keep the slantof the stitches right. When you buy a stampedpiece of embroidery, select a pattern that has ashallow scallop and one where the points are not toosharp. In working a scallop the stitches shouldslant vertically in the direct…
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