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54 stitches. Put your needle to the back of the work just below the chain stitch, thus holding it in position. Repeat this stitch at regular intervals.

Wheat Ear,—This is worked on a straight central line. Work a chain stitch (rather long), and take an upward slanting on either side. In making the slanting stitches, bring the needle out inside the chain stitch.

Ship Ladder. — Make a" straight stitch a quarter of an inch in length; bring out your needle on the right hand side a little above where it went in, and one quarter of an inch off. Put it in on the left hand of the straight stitch, a little below and about a quarter of an inch away. Bring the needle out at the end of the straight stitch and repeat.

Lattice Stitch. — This is useful for filling rather wide spaces. Work five slanting stitches across the stripe, about a quarter of an inch apart, and cross them by five stitches worked in the opposite direction, interlacing the threads as you work. Miss a quarter of an inch and repeat.

Persian Cross-Stitch. — This is a long slanting stitch crossed by one one half as long.

WORK BASKET IN TICKING WORK. (Fig. 23.) Cut four pieces of ticking, shaped as in the illustration; in the model these pieces are eight inches long measuring from the point, and the cardboard foundation is ten inches square, but with the corners rounded off. Having worked your ticking, sew it on, together with a silk inner bag, to which the ticking work must be caught by carefully hidden stitches. Work a handle and fasten on. The fancy edge is crocheted from silk as follows:— Crochet a foundation row of the necessary length; then work—

1st. Row: 9 chain, pass over four loops, one double in the next. Repeat.