ses
on to the second series of stitches. In the same manner you pass to the
third row after which you pick up all the loops and fasten off the
thread by working back to the braid edge over all the rows of loops,
following the course indicated by the dotted line.

[Illustration: FIG. 765. FILLING IN ROUND SPACES. FIRST CIRCLE OF WHEELS
BEGUN.]

[Illustration: FIG. 766. FILLING IN ROUND SPACES. THE TWO CIRCLES OF
WHEELS FINISHED.]

Fig. 765 shows how to finish a row of loops with wheels worked upon
three threads only. In the first row, you make a wheel over each bar; in
the second, you make a bar between every two wheels; in the third, the
wheels are only made over every second bar; a fourth row of bars which
you pick up with a thread completes the interior of the circle, then you
work along the bars with overcasting stitches, fig. 766, to carry the
thread back to the edge of the braid where you fasten it off.

NEEDLE-MADE PICOTS (figs. 767, 768, 769).--The edges and outlines of
Irish lace are generally bordered with picots, which as we have already
said can be bought ready-made (see fig. 692). They are not however very
strong and we cannot recommend them for lace that any one has taken the
pains to make by hand.

[Illustration: FIG. 767. CONNECTED NEEDLE-MADE PICOTS.]

[Illustration: FIG. 768. ISOLATED NEEDLE-MADE PICOTS.]

[Illustration: FIG. 769. BUTTONHOLE PICOTS WITH PICOTS IN BULLION
STITCH.]

In fig. 767, the way to make picots all joined together is described.
You begin, as in fig. 762, by a knot, over which the thread is twisted
as indicated in the engraving.

It is needless to repeat that the loops should all be knotted in a line,
all be of the same length and all the same distance apart.

Fig. 768 represents the kind of needle-made picots which most resemble
the machine-made ones, and fig. 769 show us the use of little scallops
surmounted by picots, made in bullion stitch.

One or two rows of lace stitch fig. 736, or the first rows of figs. 749,
750, can also be used in the place of picots.

IRISH LACE (fig. 770).--English braids or those braids which are
indicated at the foot of the engraving must be tacked down on to the
pattern and gathered on the inside edge, wherever the lines are curved,
as explained in fig. 693; in cases however where only Lacet superfin
D.M.C[A] is used, the needle should be slipped in underneath the outside
threads, so that the thread with which you draw in the braid be