d not one on the top of the
other.

[Illustration: FIG. 645. STAR FORMED OF LOOSE THREADS. FINISHED.]

DARNING STITCH (POINT DE REPRISE) (figs. 646 and 647).--Little flowers
and leaves are generally executed in this stitch; the first course of
the thread is shown in fig. 646. Leaves can be made with one, two or
three veins. Carry the needle, invariably from the middle, first to the
right and then to the left, under the threads of the foundation and push
the stitches close together, as they are made, with the point of your
needle. This you will be able to do most easily by holding the work so
as to make the stitches towards you.

[Illustration: FIG. 646. LEAVES WORKED IN DARNING STITCH. BEGUN.]

[Illustration: FIG. 647. LEAVES WORKED IN DARNING STITCH. COMPLETED.]

For a leaf with only one division or vein, like the left leaf in fig.
646, merely run the needle through the middle of the threads, whereas
for a leaf with two or three veins, you must run it, over and under,
either one, or two threads (see the right leaf in fig. 646).

In working leaves of this kind in darning stitch, you must draw your
stitches at the top and bottom of the leaf rather tighter than in the
middle, so as to give them the proper shape. If you wish to make them
very slender at the bottom, you can finish them off with a few
overcasting stitches.

Fig. 647 represents two leaves completed, one with one vein and the
other, with two.

POINTED SCALLOPS IN DARNING STITCH (fig. 648).--The simplest way to
work these scallops is to carry a thread, as shown in the illustration,
to and fro over the square, from the knot in one corner to the middle of
the bar above and downwards to the opposite knot, round which the thread
is carried and passed upwards again to the middle. As the scallop must
always be begun from the top, you will have, two foundation threads on
one side and three on the other. Here likewise, you must push the
threads as closely together as possible with the needle.

[Illustration: FIG. 648. POINTED SCALLOPS IN DARNING STITCH.]

[Illustration: FIG. 649. POINTED SCALLOPS IN BUTTONHOLE STITCH.]

POINTED SCALLOPS IN BUTTONHOLE STITCH (fig. 649).--Another quite as
pretty and easy way of working pointed scallops on a netted foundation
is by making two buttonhole stitches before crossing to the opposite
side. As shown in the foregoing illustration, you begin by stretching
single or double foundation threads across; then beginning at the