lso, when the occasion requires, be formed into a fringe or
tassels as a finish to the work.

POSITION OF THE HANDS AND EXPLANATION OF (1) CHAIN STITCH (fig.
403).--Take the thread in the left hand between the finger and thumb,
hold the needle between the thumb and first finger of the right hand,
letting it rest on the second finger, in the same manner in which you
hold your pen, and put it into the loop, which you hold between the
finger and thumb of the left hand. Take up the thread, lying on your
finger, with the needle and make your first stitch as you do in
knitting, tightening the loop just enough to leave an easy passage
through it for the needle. The end of the thread must be held by the
thumb and forefinger. The next stitches are made by taking up the thread
with the needle and drawing it through the loop. The throwing of the
thread round the needle by a jerk of the wrist is called an 'over'.

[Illustration: FIG. 403. POSITION OF THE HANDS AND EXPLANATION OF CHAIN
STITCH.]

(2) SINGLE STITCH (fig. 404).--Put the needle in from the right side
of the work, into the uppermost loop of the preceding row, take up the
thread on the needle and draw it through both loops.

[Illustration: FIG. 404. SINGLE STITCH.]

(3) PLAIN STITCH (fig. 405).--Put the needle through, as in fig. 404,
from the right side to the wrong, under the upper side, either of a
chain, or of a stitch of the preceding row, draw the thread through it
in a loop, turn the thread round the needle and draw it through both
loops on the needle. By making the rows of plain stitches follow each
other in different ways, a great variety of stitches can be produced, as
the illustrations and written instructions here given will show.

[Illustration: FIG. 405. PLAIN STITCH.]

ROSE STITCH (fig. 406).--This consists of rows of plain stitches,
worked backwards and forwards. Insert the needle from the right side,
under both the horizontal loops of the preceding row.

[Illustration: FIG. 406. ROSE STITCH.]

RUSSIAN STITCH (fig. 407).--This is worked like the foregoing, only
that all the rows have to be begun from the same end, and the thread has
to be cut off at the end of each row.

[Illustration: FIG 407. RUSSIAN STITCH.]

RIBBED STITCH (fig. 408).--Worked backwards and forwards, the hook
being passed through the back part only of the stitches of the preceding
row.

[Illustration: FIG 408. RIBBED STITCH.]

CHAIN STITCH.--Worked like fig. 408, but on o