EMBROIDERED BY
MRS.
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CUFF.
WEAVER.
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i very fashionable. The materials are No. 16 embroidery cotton, ,1,»
- some fine jaconet Mslin, and a. No. 7 sewing
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Trace the pattern on the muslin with n camel’s
ghair brush and a little Prussian blue (water gcolor cake) and water, or rub up with a. little ignm-water a portion of one of the bright blue wvzrwv §balls which are sold at druggists' shops; when dry, place the traced pattern on the wrong side
§against a second piece, and run them both to~ $gether at about half an inch from the blue line i at the top and sides, but not at the wrist. Now i turn the two pieces inside out, and tack the two ends on the blue line; then proceed to work on the double muslin thusz—Make a knot in the cotton, pass the needle up through the muslin
at the bottom of a leaf, put it down again at the top of same leaf, and bring the point of the
eedle through, at the same place where the gcotton has already come through; do not draw
the needle through, but leave it midway. Now
wind the cotton which is close to the knot, seven
times over the needle, and hold the cotton down
i tight with the three fingers; then draw the needle l outward, that is, from the worker, through these
ispiral twists, which will bring the twists to the ttop of the leaf. ,»»¢¢/, / 4,' After this is done, pass the needle down through
the muslin again and up through the bottom of
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leaf, still close to the knot; do not pull the needle through, but wind the cotton again seven times § over the needle as before. Pass the needle under
S the muslin, and down again from the top of leaf {to the bottom; make a sewing stitch or two for Stile stem, and proceed to next leaf. A little gpractice is required to work evenly, but when iattnined, the extraordinary rapidity with which ‘ IL i nearly all embroidery can be worked is astonish— ‘ ing; but the muslin must in all cases where it is
thin be used double.
