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50 working over two threads and under the two following, reversing the arrangement as you come back. Sometimes the design is worked so as to present the effect of ordinary cross stitch, sometimes the stitch follows the outlines of a small square. The designs (Figs. 18-20)

Fig. 20.

show in what direction these stitches are to be taken, but the principle is always the same; where the thread comes on the right side in the first working, it must be on the wrong side in returning.

Strong reds and blues are the most appropriate colors