point,
you make, alternately right and left, 2 buttonhole stitches over the
foundation threads, so that the working thread is only carried across to
the opposite side after every second stitch.

VEINED POINTED SCALLOPS (fig. 650).--A third way of making pointed
scallops is by first stretching a thread to and fro across the middle of
the square, after which you slip the needle from left to right under the
middle thread, and underneath the left bar from above. Then you carry
the needle, from right to left, over the foundation thread and under the
right bar and so on. The one thread must be drawn tightly round the
other, in order that the stitches may form close and evenly shaped
veins, like small cords, on the wrong side of the scallop. There must be
enough stitches to completely cover the foundation thread that crosses
the middle of the square.

[Illustration: FIG. 650. VEINED POINTED SCALLOPS.]

[Illustration: FIG. 651. POINTED SCALLOPS IN VENETIAN STITCH.]

POINTED SCALLOPS IN VENETIAN STITCH (fig. 651).--The prettiest
scallops of all are those worked in Venetian stitch. You begin, by
making from 8 to 10 buttonhole stitches over one bar of the netting,
then you work on with the same stitch backwards and forwards, making one
stitch less in each row, until you come to the one which forms the point
of the scallop and is fastened to the bar above; you carry the working
thread back on the wrong side to the lower bar, and then under the
buttonhole stitches to the next square of the netting. Scallops worked
in this manner, can be overcast round the edges in the way described
further on, in fig. 660.

WHEELS EMBROIDERED ON NETTING (figs. 652 and 653).--To make wheels or
spiders, as they are also called, you have first to fasten the thread to
the middle knot of four squares, thence you carry it diagonally right
and left, fig. 652, right detail, across the empty squares of netting
and the knot, and return to the middle, overcasting your first thread
by the way, so as to form a closely twisted cord. This is called cording
a thread.

Having reached the centre, carry the working thread round and round,
under and over the corded threads and under the bars of the netting till
the wheel covers half the bars.

[Illustration: FIG. 652. LAYING THE THREADS FOR A WHEEL AND BEGINNING OF
THE WHEEL.]

[Illustration: FIG. 653. WHEELS WORKED IN TWO WAYS.]

Fig. 653 shows, on the right, a finished wheel, and on the left, another
way