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170 crossing point. It is a button-hole stitch, only the stitch is put in over instead of next to the starting thread. For the double thread cross (Fig. 52) stretch the first loose thread for two bars of the cross lying near

Fig. 52

each other, then return as far as the middle only. Twist the thread round the latter, from here going always forwards and backwards to form the third and fourth bars; then unite all the four bars by one stitch, and then twist the thread a few times round the first bar with a single thread and finish. After uniting the cross-bars, it will be easy to make a little round pattern in the middle by drawing the thread round the cross.

Fig. 53 shows how to work a half cross stitch in rows.

Fig. 53.

SPINNING STITCH AND WHEELS,

These patterns are generally worked over four holes of the netted square at the crossing point of the cross-bars stretched across, and either unite the eight radii