e. When you have made this foundation,
put the needle in on the right side near the stitch that is nearest to
the sound part on the left, fig. 371.

[Illustration: FIG. 371. DARNING ON THREADS STRETCHED HORIZONTALLY.
POSITION OF THE HORIZONTAL THREADS.]

[Illustration: FIG. 372. DARNING ON THREADS STRETCHED HORIZONTALLY. HOW
TO COVER THE HORIZONTAL THREADS.]

Then descending, pick up the nearest horizontal thread from below, so
that the working thread lies to the right of the needle, and cover all
the horizontal threads you have laid in this manner.

When you have taken up the last thread, pass the needle downwards from
above, through the nearest loop, and bring it back through the one at
which you entered it.

To make, in reascending, the second half of the loop, you must lay your
thread to the right of the needle, fig. 372.

When you have reached the last thread, enter the needle at the loop,
opposite the one it came out of.

DARNING ON THREADS STRETCHED OBLIQUELY ACROSS (figs. 373 and 374).--As
the illustration shows, you have to pick up all the cleared loops,
besides two or three on either side of the empty space. The number and
length of the threads which you carry across, must correspond with those
of the threads you have to replace.

[Illustration: FIG. 373. DARNING ON THREADS STRETCHED OBLIQUELY ACROSS.
POSITION OF THE THREADS.]

[Illustration: FIG. 374. DARNING ON THREADS STRETCHED OBLIQUELY ACROSS.
HOW TO COVER THE OBLIQUE THREADS.]

Fasten in, from the right side, a rather finer thread than the one the
original web is made of, and make a few stitches over the existing ones,
in the row you are about to complete.

Enter the needle upwards from below, through the first disengaged loop,
pass it under two threads issuing from one loop, and then bring it back
again into the same loop between the two slanting threads, drawing it
out again upwards from below, through the next loop, and so on. The new
loop must be just equal to the old ones in size. Make in the same manner
as at the beginning, two or three stitches at the end of the row, within
the edge of the hole. Work back in a similar way, with this difference
only, that you turn your work round.

PIQUE PATTERN (fig. 375).--The following patterns are suitable for
making counterpanes, petticoats, vests and other articles of clothing.
Select a suitable number of Coton a tricoter D.M.C. Cast on a number of
stitches divisible by 7, and begin by 6 rows o