A narrow crochet edge can be used on the edge of the scrim curtains or a narrow border of drawn work can be used.
Shadow work is effective on dimity or dotted swiss curtains. Another pretty stitch very similar to the shadow stitch is the skeleton stitch. Instead of the work being on the wrong side it all appears on the right. Work a row of very fine running stitches on the right side. Fagot stitch from side to side catching the thread into the running stitches. The work is done from the centre of the flower to the tip of the petal. Do not end your thread but weave over and under the fagotting stitch to the end of the petal, leaf or space on which you are working.
The curtains may be sash lengths or may be the full length of the window but do not make them longer than to reach the sill.
The Country Life Press
Garden City, N. Y.
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