ir proper order. Fig. 310 explains how
the needle has to pass, alternately, step by step, over and under the
threads of the stuff, and fig. 311, how the threads, left blank the
first time, are covered on the way back. The great difficulty is how to
place your first row of stitches so as to ensure an unbroken course
back. It is as well before setting out, to ascertain clearly the most
direct course back, so that you may not come to a stand-still, or be
obliged to make unnecessary stitches on the wrong side. If you have to
pass obliquely across the stuff, as in patterns figs. 326, 327, 328,
329, 331 and 333, proceed in the same way as though you were covering
the straight threads of a fabric.

[Illustration: FIG. 310. TWO-SIDED LINE STITCH. FORWARD ROW.]

[Illustration: FIG. 311. TWO-SIDED LINE STITCH. BACKWARD ROW.]

TWO-SIDED INSERTION (figs. 312, 313, 314, 315, 316, 317, 318).--We
conclude this series of stitches with a description of a pretty,
two-sided insertion, suitable for joining stripes of work of different
widths together. In pieces of old needlework, we often find handsome,
coloured patterns, joined together by a piece of lace or some quite
different kind of work. The insertion represented in fig. 317, is a very
good substitute for either. Fig. 312 explains the first stitch and the
course of the second, from left to right, under 3 vertical and 3
horizontal threads; the 3rd stitch to the left, over 6 vertical threads,
and the beginning of the 4th stitch. Fig. 313 shows the 4th stitch
completed, and the direction the 5th and 6th stitches have to take;
fig. 314, the 6th completed, and the position of the needle for the 7th
and 8th; fig. 315, the 9th lower, horizontal stitch, over 6 vertical
threads, the 10th backward stitch, and the position of the needle for
the 11th and last stitch. Fig. 317 represents a whole series of
stitches, and fig. 318, the back of the work, which though quite a
different pattern, will combine very well with any two-sided embroidery.

[Illustration: FIG. 312. TWO-SIDED INSERTION. FIRST DETAIL.]

[Illustration: FIG. 313. TWO-SIDED INSERTION. SECOND DETAIL.]

[Illustration: FIG. 314. TWO-SIDED INSERTION. THIRD DETAIL.]

[Illustration: FIG. 315. TWO-SIDED INSERTION. FOURTH DETAIL.]

[Illustration: FIG. 316. TWO-SIDED INSERTION. FIFTH DETAIL.]

These insertions can be worked on any stuff, but the stitches, must be
done, both ways, on a number of threads, divisible by 3. Thus, the fir