to work A.
To work chain-stitch (A on the sampler, Illustration [17]) bring the needle out, hold the thread down with the left thumb, put the needle in again at the hole through which you brought it out, take up ¼ of an inch of stuff, and draw the thread through: that gives you the first link of the chain. The back of the work ([18]) looks like back-stitch. In fact, in the quilted coverlet, Illustration [69] (as in much similar work of the period), the outline pattern, which you might take for back-stitching, proves to have been worked from the back in chain-stitch. The same thing occurs in the case of the Persian quilt in Illustration [70].
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17. CHAIN-STITCH SAMPLER.
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18. CHAIN-STITCH SAMPLER (BACK).