ered netting, consists of diagonal
lines of squares, closely filled with darning stitches, alternating with
diagonal lines of squares, each with a small wheel in the middle.

In fig. 678, the darning stitches, and the wheels, which are both worked
with the same material, cover 4 squares of the netting.

Larger expanses of netting may also be entirely filled with wheels, fig.
679. To make a really satisfactory grounding of this kind, you should be
careful always to carry your thread over the bars of the netting and
under the threads that are stretched diagonally across.

GROUND WORKED IN CROSS AND DARNING STITCH (fig. 680).--You begin, as
before, by making the close darning stitches, and then proceed to the
cross stitches. To give them the right shape, finish all the rows of
stitches one way first; in the subsequent rows, that cross the first
ones, you introduce the thread between the stitches that were first
crossed.

[Illustration: FIG. 679. GROUND WITH LARGE WHEELS.]

GROUND OF GEOMETRICAL FIGURES (fig. 681).--This pattern, quite
different from all the others, consists of simple geometrical lines.
Fasten the thread to a knot of the netting, then carry it, always
diagonally, under 3 other knots and repeat this 3 times, after which,
carry it once round the bar of the netting, to fasten it, and back again
to the knot which it already encircles, and from thence begin a new
square. Owing to your having always to bring the thread back to the knot
whence the next square is to begin, you will have 4 threads on two of
the sides and 6 on the two others.

[Illustration: FIG. 680. GROUND WORKED IN CROSS AND DARNING STITCH.]

In the second and subsequent rows, the needle has to pass twice under
the angles that were first formed, in order that, over the whole
surface, all the corners may be equally covered and connected.

NETTED INSERTION WORKED IN PLAIN DARNING STITCH (fig. 682).--The taste
for ornamenting not only curtains but bed and table linen also, with
lace and insertion of all kinds, to break the monotony of the large
white surfaces, is becoming more and more general and the insertion here
described will be welcome to such of our readers as have neither time
nor patience for work of a more elaborate nature.

The way to make straight netting has already been fully described in
figs. 625, 626, 627, 628, 629 and 630, and darning stitch in fig. 637.

To those who wish to be saved the trouble of making the netting
the