Materials: Messrs. Walter Evans and Co.'s Embroidery Cotton No. 20, and
Linen Thread No. 16.
Lace stitches are introduced in the medallion which incloses these
letters, the outlines being worked in overcast and point de pois, the
pens and initials in raised satin stitch, as also the flowers. The open
portion is filled in with Mechlin wheels, which are thus worked: A
number of single threads cross each other in the space to be filled up;
these are placed about a quarter of an inch from each other. All the
bars in one direction must now be worked in fine button-hole stitch,
then the opposite bars must be worked, and the button-hole stitch must
be continued about six inches past the point where the two lines cross.
The thread must be slipped loosely round the cross twice, running over
and under alternately, so as to form a circle; then work in button-hole
to the centre of a quarter of the circle; make a dot by inserting a pin
in the next button-hole and working three stitches in the loop thus
formed by the pin. These dots may be omitted from these wheels.
[Illustration: 399.--L.G.A.]