in which it can be made, and indicates the course of the thread over
and under the lines, as in a darn. These details show also how, when the
foundation thread of the wheel starts from a corner, it is left single
in the first square until the wheel is finished; then the needle is
slipped back along the little spoke, opposite to the single thread, and
through the wheel, and the single thread is corded like the others.

[Illustration: FIG. 654. RIBBED WHEELS.]

[Illustration: FIG. 655. RIBBED SQUARES OR LOZENGES.]

RIBBED WHEELS (fig. 654).--Make the foundation of the wheels as
before, over 8 threads. To form the ribs at the back of the wheels, see
fig. 654; make a back stitch, on the right side, over a bar of the
netting, and carry on the needle under one bar, so that the thread that
lies outside always crosses 2 bars of the netting.

In this case you must make circles of thread enough, to cover the bars
completely, not half, as before.

The same stitches, as fig. 654 shows, can be made on either side of the
embroidery, and so as to form, either a square or a lozenge (see fig.
655).

[Illustration: FIG. 656. WHEELS SET WITH BUTTONHOLING.]

WHEELS SET WITH BUTTONHOLING (fig. 656).--A very pretty lace-like
effect is produced by encircling the wheels in large squares of netting
with a double setting of stitches. The left detail of fig. 656 shows how
the thread, having been passed under the wheel and twisted once round
the single thread, is carried all round the square and forms 8 loops.

The arrow shows the way in which the loops are taken up, and the first
ring of stitches round the wheel is finished.

The second detail of the same figure explains the course the thread,
that forms the second ring, has to take through the loops and between
the bars; whilst the white line shows the passage of the thread over the
second ring. The third detail represents a wheel, completed.

[Illustration: FIG. 657. STAR WITH ONE-SIDED BUTTONHOLE STITCHES.]

STAR WITH ONE-SIDED BUTTONHOLE STITCHES (fig. 657).--The pattern
represented in fig. 657, is the quickest to work that we know of. Two
buttonhole stitches made upon the outside bar of a square and a simple
crossing of the thread at the bottom, produce elongated triangles which
should always be begun from the knot. Two triangles stand exactly
opposite to each other in one square, and the square that comes in the
middle of the four thus filled, is ornamented with a small wheel.