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Needlecraft (1911)

Archer, Effie Archer · Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, Page & company · leaf 38

An illustration from Needlecraft, 1911, leaf 38
t two three-inch squares. Baste the twosquares together a quarter of an inch from the edge.Hold the square over the first finger of the lefthand ready for the back-stitching. Let the bastingrun up and down over your finger. Start from the 12 NEEDLECRAFT 13 top and make a small stitch backward, on… … Fig. 10. Back-stitching backward close to the end of the last one on theright. Remember that the stitch you take backwardis only half as long as the one you take forward.Stitching always looks very different on the wrongside, but on the right side it ought to look like ma-chine stitching. This…

Needlework

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