ad afresh for each row, make a
loop over the thumb.

MAKING LOOPS OVER THE THUMB.--Put the thread, as for a plain loop over
the mesh and fingers, and put the needle through the loop, likewise as
for a plain loop, but before tightening the knot, draw the mesh out of
the loop just made and make it exactly as long as the loop above.

[Illustration: FIG. 622. CIRCULAR NETTING FORMED BY INCREASES.]

CIRCULAR NETTING FORMED BY INCREASES (fig. 622).--Make 10 loops on the
foundation loop, close the ring, then go on, making a row with one knot
in the first loop and two knots in the second, until the net attains the
right circumference; in the subsequent rows, increase by one loop, that
is to say, make two knots in each of the previous increases.

[Illustration: FIG. 623. SQUARE OF NETTING. BEGUN.]

SQUARE OF NETTING (figs. 623 and 624).--To make squares of netting
with straight loops, begin by making two loops or three knots. Make two
knots in each of the following rows so that each row is increased by one
loop. Continue to increase until you have one loop more than the square
should number.

[Illustration: FIG. 624. SQUARE OF NETTING. COMPLETED.]

Following this row with the extra stitch, make a row without either
increase or intake and begin the intakes in the next row, joining the
two last loops of each row together by a knot. Finish the two last loops
over the thumb.

[Illustration: FIG. 625. SQUARE OF NETTING BEGUN FROM THE MIDDLE.
BEGUN.]

[Illustration: FIG. 626. SQUARE OF NETTING BEGUN FROM THE MIDDLE.
COMPLETED.]

SQUARE OF NETTING BEGUN FROM THE MIDDLE (figs. 625 and 626).--Instead
of beginning a square from the corner, in the manner just described, it
may be begun from the middle.

[Illustration: FIG. 627. STRIPE OF STRAIGHT NETTING EDGED WITH EMPTY
LOOPS.]

Cast on the required number of loops, make an intake in each row, by
omitting to take up the last loop of a row. In coming back, your first
knot will thus be made over the last loop but one of the previous row,
fig. 625. To complete the square, fasten the thread on again, to the end
of the thread of the last row, then make a similar to it, and repeat the
same rows you made at the beginning (see fig. 626).

[Illustration: FIG. 628. STRIPE OF STRAIGHT NETTING.]

STRIPES OF STRAIGHT NETTING (figs. 627 and 628).--These can be begun
and finished in two ways. The simplest way, more especially when they
are to be embroidered afterwards, is to cast on th