Plain needlework, knitting, and mending, for all, at home and in schools... (1879)
Hale, Lucretia P. (Lucretia Peabody), 1820-1900 · Boston : S.W. Tilton · leaf 44
be considered as finished; but, if it had been done so, the course of the brokenstitches gathered up would not have been seen. PLAIN NEEDLEWORK FOR SCHOOLS. 43 would be even, and too great for the texture, and it wouldspeedily tear away again. A diamond is a good shape. In thickening a thin place,… … the same stitch, or loop, gets picked up every fourth rowrand must therefore be stronger than where it comes upevery other row. To make the wave dam, proceed asbefore for five rows, then, for five more rows, take theloop, or stitch, below the last in each succeeding row: thiswill produce vandyked…
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