Archer, Effie Archer · Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, Page & company · leaf 194
g. 147. French knots To make the stitch we will say that we are work-ing on the conventional daisy. Bring the threadup to the base of the petal. Insert the needle sothat the length of the petal lies on top of it. (SeeFigure 148.) Twine the thread around theneedle point until there are as many coils… … 166 NEEDLECRAFT to the one from which it came. Keep the leftthumb holding down the coils until the stitch has been fastened. Another way to accomplishbullion stitch, which has thesame appearance, but whichreally is a very much slowermethod, is to lay a heavy threadthe length of the stitch…
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