NEEDLEWORK BORDERS
The Weekly Times Needlework Book for 193.'? contains a most attractive collection of charming designs in knitting, crochet and needlework. Among other features there is a useful paragraph on a variety of borders which may bo quickly and easily worked. It points out, for instance, that buttonhole stitch may be used in many ways; one variation is (o make the stitches alternately slope from left to right and right to left. This gives an effect of buttonhole edging with a row of cross-stitches ahovo it. Another arrangement looks like fleurs-de-lys—-tho stiches are in groups of three," the centre upright stitch being made just twice as long as the ones on each side of it, which slope from left to right and right to left respectively. Linked rings worked in two colours in chain stitch are used to fill the corners of collars, cuffs and V fronts. Different stitches can be used by first running round a circle, then weaving another row of stitches in and out tho opposite way. Another way is to darn up and down through tho running stitches.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21478, 29 April 1933, Page 6 (Supplement)
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183NEEDLEWORK BORDERS New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21478, 29 April 1933, Page 6 (Supplement)
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