e necessary number of
loops, to decrease on one side by dropping a loop, fig. 627, or by
joining two loops together with a knot, fig. 628, and to increase on the
other side, by making two knots over one loop.

Great care must be taken not to change the order of the intakes and
increases, as any mistake of the kind would break the lines of squares,
and interfere with the subsequent embroidery, unless there happened to
be more loops in the stripe than stitches in the pattern, in which case
the superfluous loops might be cut away when the embroidery is finished.

STRAIGHT NETTING WITH A SCALLOPED EDGE (fig. 629).--The second way of
making stripes of straight netting is to begin by a square. After making
two loops on the foundation loop, make rows with increases, until you
have the required number of loops. Then make an increase in every row to
the left and leave the last loop empty in every row to the right.
Continuing the increases on the left, you net 4 rows, without
increasing or decreasing on the right, whilst in the next 4, you again
leave the outside loop empty.

[Illustration: FIG. 629. STRAIGHT NETTING WITH A SCALLOPED EDGE.]

SQUARE FRAME OF NETTING (fig. 630).--Handkerchief, counterpane and
chair-back borders can be netted in one piece, leaving an empty square
in the centre. After casting on the loops as for an ordinary square of
netting, letter _a_, increase them to double the number required for the
border. Thus, for example, if the border is to consist of 3 squares, you
make 6 loops, then leave 3 loops empty on the left and continue to work
to the right and decrease to the left, up to the dotted line from _c_ to
_c_. After this you begin to decrease on the right and increase on the
left, up to the dotted line from _e_ to _e_.

[Illustration: FIG. 630. SQUARE FRAME OF NETTING.]

Leaving the right side of the net, you now fasten on the thread at _c_,
where the 3 empty loops are, and here you make your increases on the
right side and your intakes on the left, till you come to the corner,
from whence you decrease on the right and increase on the left, up to
letter _g_. Stop on the left side and then work from left to right,
passing over the row that is marked _e_. The fourth corner, letter _b_,
is worked like any other piece of straight netting, with an intake in
each row, until there are only two loops left.

[Illustration: FIG. 631. DIAGONAL NETTING WITH CROSSED LOOPS. ORIGINAL
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