two loops and
three buttonhole stitches, you make two stitches in the next loops and
so on. In the third row, you make three stitches in the big loop, and
one in the loop between the stitches of the second row.

[Illustration: FIG. 728. NINTH LACE STITCH.]

[Illustration: FIG. 729. TENTH LACE STITCH.]

NINTH, AND TENTH LACE STITCH (figs. 728 and 729).--Both, the small and
the big pointed groups of stitches, begin with a row of close buttonhole
stitches.

Fig. 728 requires three rows; in the second you miss two stitches and
make two in the next loops; in the third, only one stitch is introduced
between the two loops of the lower row.

Fig. 729 requires five rows. The stitches of the first must be set as
closely together as possible; in the second row you make four stitches
and miss two of the first row, in the third row you make three stitches,
in the fourth, two and in the fifth, one only. The long loops of the
last row must not be too slack so that the first stitches of the next
scallop may quite cover them.

[Illustration: FIG. 730. ELEVENTH LACE STITCH.]

ELEVENTH LACE STITCH (fig. 730).--This stitch is not really more
difficult to work than those we have been describing, but requires
rather more attention to learn.

The first row consists of plain net stitches; in the second, you have
three buttonhole stitches in the middle net stitch; in the third, three
buttonhole stitches in the whole loops on either side of the three
buttonhole stitches of the second row, and one stitch in the half loops
that precede and immediately follow them; the fourth row is similar to
the second.

In the fifth row the close stitches are changed. The three buttonhole
stitches are made in the third whole loop, before and after those of the
fourth row, so that between two groups of three stitches you have six
single buttonhole stitches and seven loops.

[Illustration: FIG. 731. TWELFTH LACE STITCH.]

TWELFTH LACE STITCH (fig. 731).--Fasten on your thread, take it by
overcasting stitches over the braid edge, half a c/m. from the corner,
and make three buttonhole stitches downwards, quite close together. The
next loops, over four or six threads of the braid, must be left long
enough to be on a level with the first stitch reaching downwards from
the edge.

In the second row, you cover the long loops with three buttonhole
stitches and draw the intervening thread quite tight.

The third row is like the first, with the difference,