s
kind. Some are better worked in a frame, but that is very much a matter
of personal practice.

[Illustration: THE WORKING OF F ON INTERLACING-STITCH SAMPLER.]

[Sidenote: TO WORK H, 34.]

In the Surface Darning at H (34) long threads are first carried from
edge to edge of the square, there only piercing the stuff, and then
darned across by other stitches, again only piercing it at the edges.

An oblique version of this is given at C (34).

[Sidenote: TO WORK B, 34.]

The Lace Buttonholing at B (34) is worked as follows:--Buttonhole three
stitches into the stuff from left to right, not quite close together,
and further on three more; then, working from right to left, make three
buttonhole stitches into the thread connecting the stitch groups; but do
not stitch into the stuff except at the ends of the rows. The last row
must, of course, be worked into the stuff again.

[Illustration: 34. SURFACE-STITCH SAMPLER.]

[Sidenote: TO WORK F, 34.]

Net Passing, as at F (34), is not very differently worked from A or B.
It is much more open, and the first row of horizontal stitches is
crossed by two opposite rows of oblique stitches, which are made to
interlace.

[Sidenote: TO WORK G, 34.]

The square at G is worked by first making rows of short upright stitches
worked into the stuff, and then threading loose stitches through them.

[Sidenote: TO WORK D, 34.]

The square at D is worked on the open lattice shown; the solid parts are
produced by interlacing stitches from side to side, starting at the
angle.

In the square at E (Japanese Darning) horizontal lines are first darned,
and then zigzag lines are worked between them, much as in G; but, as
they penetrate the material, this is scarcely a surface stitch.

[Sidenote: TO WORK A, 34.]

The horizontal lines at top and bottom of the square at A are
back-stitching, the intermediate ones simply long threads carried from
one side to the other; they are laced together by lines looped round
them.

[Sidenote: TO WORK L, 34.]

The band at L is begun by making horizontal bar stitches. A row of
crewel-stitch and one of outline-stitch, worked on to the bars, and not
into the stuff, makes the central chain.

[Sidenote: TO WORK K, 34.]

The band at K is merely surface buttonholing over a series of slanting
stitches.

[Sidenote: TO WORK J, 34.]

The band at J is buttonhole stitching wide apart, the bars filled in
with surface crewel-stitch.

[Illustration: 35.