Archer, Effie Archer · Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, Page & company · leaf 225
196 NEEDLECRAFT If a little larger and more elaborate square iswanted, take a piece of material nine or ten inchessquare. Make a star, skip four threads and work theopen squares described for the smaller pin cushion. On the opposite side of the square, directly acrossfrom the first star, skip four… … Fig. 167. The Hardanger square pin cushion other square. At the other two corners of thesquare make a star (Figure 167). The German peasant girls are proud of theiraprons with a border of Hardanger embroidery. NEEDLECRAFT 197 It is a common thing for them to have a borderfifteen or eighteen inches…
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