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Our homes and their adornments, or, How to build, finish, furnish and adorn a home, containing practical instructions for the building of homes, interior decoration, wood carving, scroll sawing, house painting, window hangings, screens, curtains, window gardening, incidental decorations, decorative-art needle-work, and economic landscape gardening; to which is added a household compendium of new, practical and valuable recipes, the whole being designed to make happy homes for happy people (1883)

Varney, Almon C. (Almon Clother), b. 1849 · Detroit, Mich. : J.C. Chilton · leaf 261

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Borders in Button-hole. Embossed Button-hole, or Blanket pretty effect is made by varying the length of the stitches,or sloping them in many directions. [233] 234 OUR HOMES AND THEIR ADORNMENTS. … Chain Stitch. Twisted Chain Stitch.lar to the foregoing, theneedle, however, beingset to the left instead ofinto the preceding stitch.This stitch can be variedby setting the needle far-ther to the left, and ex-tending its length, whenwe have what is calledthe Vine Chain Stitch. Chain…

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