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open double net stitch are worked. To accomplish
this, two buttonhole stitches close together, and
drawn rathei' tight, are worked at regular intervals
into the braid across the space. The second row
consists of two close buttonhole stitches worked
into each loop of the first row. The third row is
like the second. At the cofnpletion of the third
row the thread is overcast along the edge of the
braid for a distance about equal to that necessary
for a Spanish net stitch. A single buttonhole
stitch is worked into the first loop of the preced-
ing row, and left somewhat loose. Point de Venise
or side stitches are now used. A close buttonhole
stitch is worked over the single net stitch close to
the loop to which it is attached. This is drawn
closely and followed by three or four more side
stitches set closely together. There must be
enough of them to so fill the long loop that there
is only a slight downward curve to that part left
uncovered, and into which the next row must be
work^. When the first group of side, or Point de
Venise, stitches is completed, another single long
Brussels net stitch is worked into the next loop, and
this in turn is filled with the same number of side
stitches as were used to cover the first long stitch.
This is continued to the end of the row, and is
followed by three rows of double net stitch, after
which the row of long Point de Venise stitches is
repeated. This is continued in the same order of
three rows of double net and one of Point de
Venise, until the space is ^filled.
Combination Stitch.
In Fig. 98 is shown a pretty combination of
Brussels net, Spanish net, and Venetian stitches.
The thread is fastened at the upper left corner,
and two rows of Brussels net stitches are worked.
thread is then overcast one stitch lower, along
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the edge of the braid, at the side of the space, and
then carried in a straight line across the wjdth of
the space and through the braid at the right side,
just below the second row of Brussels net stitches.
Two close buttonhole stitches are worked over each
loop, and in every instance over the straight thread
also. This makes tKe Venetian stitch. The thread
is again carried across the space, and a second row
of Venetian stitch worked. In this row one button-
hole stitch is worked between each of the stitches of
the row above. The working thread is then overcast
along the edge of the braid the required distance,
and a Spanish net stitch is worked between every
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other stitch of the row above. The working thread
is then carried twice across the space, and should lie
in close parallel lines just at the edge of the loops
Fig. 98. COMBINATIOK Stitoh.
Brussels Xet, Spanish Net, and Venetian
Stitch.
of the row of
Spanish net
stitches. A row
of Venetian
stitoh is then
worked over
these two
threads, and the
the loops of the
Spanish net
stitches by plac-
ing two Brussels
net stitches on
each loop be-
tween the Span-
ish net stitches. If preferred, only one straight
thread may be carried across the space for this row
of Venetian stitch. A second row of Spanish net
stitches is then worked, one between every two
Venetian stitches of the row above. , This places
the Spanish net stitches exactly under the Spanish
net stitches already worked in the row above. Two
rows of Venetian stitch are next made and the
space is conipleted by the working of two rows of
Brussels net.
A very pretty effect is produced by alternating
two or three rows of Venetian stitch with one of
Spanish net throughout the space. In this case
the Brussels net stitches at the beginning of the
network are omittedj and the network should begin
with one row of Spanish net stitches and should
also end with a row of the same.
G>mbination Stitch.
Another pretty stitch is shown in Fig. 99. The
thread is fastened at the upper right corner and a
row of open Brussels net stitches is worked across
the space. The thread is overcast along the edge
of the left braid a distance equal to the Brussels
net stitches. A single net stitch is worked in the
first loop of the row above. This is repeated at
the second loop. Into this second stitch a group
of four close buttonhole stitches is worked. The
thread is passed through the middle of the net
stitch and drawn up in a rather close buttonhole
stitch. Three other similar stitches are worked
close together in the same opening. A single
Brussels net stitch is placed in the next loop of