tonhole stitches to the number of eight or ten, up to the
point from which the next branch issues, from the edge of the braid,
that is, upwards.

Then you bring the needle down again and buttonhole the second part of
the bar, working from right to left.

[Illustration: FIG. 759. FORTIETH LACE STITCH.]

A picot, like the one described in fig. 701, marks the point where the
bars join. More picots of the same kind may be added at discretion.

[Illustration: FIG. 760. WHEEL COMPOSED OF BUTTONHOLE BARS. MAKING AND
TAKING UP THE LOOPS.]

[Illustration: FIG. 761. WHEEL COMPOSED OF BUTTONHOLE BARS. THE
BUTTONHOLING BEGUN.]

WHEEL COMPOSED OF BUTTONHOLE BARS (figs. 760, 761, 762, 763).--As we
have already more than once given directions for making wheels, not only
in the present chapter, but also in the one on netting, there is no need
to enlarge on the kind of stitches to be used here, but we will explain
the course of the thread in making wheels, composed of buttonhole bars
in a square opening.

Fig. 760 shows how the first eight loops which form the foundation of
the bars are made.

[Illustration: FIG. 762. WHEEL COMPOSED OF BUTTONHOLE BARS. PASSING FROM
ONE BAR TO THE OTHER.]

[Illustration: FIG. 763. WHEEL COMPOSED OF BUTTONHOLE BARS. BARS AND
RING FINISHED.]

In fig. 761 you will see that a thread has been passed through the
loops, for the purpose of drawing them in and making a ring in addition
to which, two threads added to the loop serve as padding for the
buttonhole stitches; the latter should always be begun on the braid
side. Fig. 762 represents the bar begun in fig. 761 completed, and the
passage of the thread to the next bar, and fig. 763 the ring buttonholed
after the completion of all the bars.

[Illustration: FIG. 764. FILLING IN A ROUND SPACE WITH NET STITCH.]

FILLING IN ROUND SPACES (figs. 764, 765, 766).--The stitches best
adapted for filling in round spaces are those that can be drawn in and
tightened to the required circumference, or those that admit of the
number being reduced, regularly, in each round.

In tacking braids on to circular patterns, the inside edges, as we
pointed out at the beginning of this chapter, have to be drawn in with
overcasting stitches in very fine thread.

Fig. 764 shows how to fill in a round space with net stitches. It will
be observed that the loop which begins the row, has the thread of the
loop with which it terminates, wound round it, which thread then pas