very sharply defined.

[Illustration: FIG. 181. ROUND, BUTTON-HOLED SCALLOPS.]

[Illustration: FIG. 182. LARGE, POINTED, BUTTON-HOLED SCALLOPS.]

[Illustration: FIG. 183. SMALL, POINTED, BUTTON-HOLED SCALLOPS.]

ROSE SCALLOPS (figs. 184 and 185).--These are, large button-holed
scallops with indented edges, in the one case, rounded at the top and
sharply pointed at the join; in the other, pointed at the top, and
joined at the bottom by a straight bar of button-holing.

[Illustration: FIG. 184. ROUNDED ROSE SCALLOPS.]

[Illustration: FIG. 185. POINTED ROSE SCALLOPS.]

EYELET HOLES (figs. 186, 187, 188).--Outline the eyelet holes very
carefully first by running a thread round them, then cut out the
enclosed stuff with a sharp pair of finely pointed scissors, and edge
the hole with plain overcasting stitches, worked from left to right.

[Illustration: FIG. 186. OVERCAST EYELET HOLES.]

When you have a long row of eyelet holes to make, outline the upper and
lower halves alternately, first on one side and then on the other, using
two threads, and then overcast them in the same way. The double crossing
of the working threads between the eyelet holes makes them much
stronger, than if each hole were finished off separately, and the thread
passed underneath from one to the other.

[Illustration: FIG. 187. BUTTON-HOLED SHADED EYELET HOLES.]

[Illustration: FIG. 188. SHADED EYELET HOLES HALF OVERCAST, HALF
BUTTON-HOLED.]

The lower halves of shaded eyelet holes, (see figs. 187 and 188), are
worked with very short stitches, and the upper halves with long ones;
they may be edged entirely, either with button-holing or overcasting, or
half with one and half with the other.

SIX LEAVES IN RAISED SATIN STITCH (fig. 189).--Raised satin stitch is
chiefly used for working flowers, leaves, petals, dots, initials and
monograms. After tracing the outline of the design, fill in the centres
with a padding of long, close stitches for which you can again take
Coton a repriser D.M.C[A] and then, beginning always at the point of the
leaf, see letter A, cover it with flat, perfectly even stitches, worked
from right-to-left. B illustrates a leaf, divided through the middle by
a line of overcasting; C, one with a corded vein; D, a divided leaf
worked in sloping satin stitch; E, a leaf, with a corded vein and framed
in sloping satin stitch; F, a leaf worked half in satin stitch, half in
back-stitch and straight stem stitch.

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