Materials: First and second sections of the Seam Sampler.
Baste the two sections together one-fourth of an inch from the edge. Sew with the half-back stitch three-eighths of an inch from the edge.
Exercise No. 16—A Doily—Blanket Stitch and the Kensington Outline Stitch.[15]
Materials: Imitation Butchers' Linen 9" × 9"; white luster cotton; needle No. 5.
An exercise in paper cutting for the doily design. Have pupils provide themselves with ten or twelve pieces of paper eight inches square for practice cutting. Fold the first paper three times and cut a convex, concave or compound curve from corner to corner. Open and study these curved lines and select the most graceful. Cut again making corrections. Cut a design in straight lines. Cut one composed of both straight and curved lines. Do not work haphazard, but criticise, compare and reject. The surface requires little decoration if the doily is pleasing in outline. That which is placed upon it should have some relation to the outline. Study the space to be decorated and how it can be divided or ornamented by lines, curved or straight, that may serve as a real decoration, but avoid too elaborate designs. Before beginning the doily have a finished pattern. The pattern may be transferred to the cloth by tracing the pattern with a hard pencil, using carbon paper between pattern and cloth, or the pattern may be pinned on and the outline drawn and the design put on freehand.
ORIGINAL DESIGNS FOR THE DOILY BY FOURTH GRADE GIRLS.
To work the Doily. Finish the edge with the blanket stitch. See "Blanket Stitch," [page 73]. Work the lines of the design with the Kensington Outline Stitch.