WHEELS AND LOOP STITCH (fig. 672).--You begin with the
coarse thread and finish all the wheels first, making them each over 4
threads of the netting; then with the fine thread, you make loop
stitches between them, in rows, as shown in figs. 641 and 642.

GROUND WORKED IN DARNING AND LOOP STITCH (fig. 673).--The darning
stitches are made in the coarse thread, over 4 squares of the netting,
in a horizontal direction, with loop stitches, in the fine thread, made
between them, over the same number of squares.

[Illustration: FIG. 672. GROUND WITH WHEELS AND LOOP STITCH.]

GROUND WORKED IN TWO SIZES OF THREAD (fig. 674).--Carry the coarse
thread, from right to left, under the first knot of the netting, and
then under the next, from left to right. This has to be done twice, to
and fro, so that the squares of the netting are edged on both sides with
a double layer of threads.

When the whole foundation has been thus covered, take the fine thread
and make loop stitches in the squares between the other rows of
stitches, passing the needle for that purpose over the double stitch.
Lastly, intersect the loop stitches with straight threads and pass the
needle each time through the knot of the netting.

[Illustration: FIG. 673. GROUND WORKED IN DARNING AND LOOP STITCH.]

[Illustration: FIG. 674. GROUND WORKED IN TWO SIZES OF THREAD.]

[Illustration: FIG. 675. GROUND WORKED WITH CROSS STITCHES IN ONE SIZE
OF THREAD.]

GROUND WORKED WITH CROSS STITCHES IN ONE SIZE OF THREAD (fig.
675).--This pattern, very like the foregoing one, consists of 3 diagonal
rows of stitches, worked to and fro, with cross stitches made over them.

You may also begin with the cross stitches, in the fine thread, and work
the triple stitches over them, in the coarse.

GROUND WORKED WITH DARNING AND CORD STITCHES (fig. 676).--Patterns,
executed chiefly in darning stitches, in a comparatively coarse thread,
present a closer and heavier appearance than those we have been
describing. Here, every other square of the netting is filled, as
closely as possible, with stitches; the empty squares between are
intersected diagonally with corded threads.

[Illustration: FIG. 676. GROUND WORKED WITH DARNING AND CORD STITCHES.]

[Illustration: FIG. 677. GROUND WORKED WITH SQUARES AND WHEELS.]

[Illustration: FIG. 678. GROUND WORKED WITH SQUARES AND WHEELS.]

GROUND WORKED WITH SQUARES AND WHEELS (figs. 677, 678, 679).--A ground
very often met with in old embroid