These elegant letters are simply worked in graduated satin stitch and fine overcast with eyelet-holes
407.--M.H.E.
Material: Messrs. Walter Evans and Co.'s Embroidery Cotton No. 18
This elegant design is worked in graduated satin stitch, the middle letter is done in point croisé. This stitch is only worked on very thin and transparent materials. Insert the needle into the material as for the common back stitch, draw it out underneath the needle on the opposite outline of the pattern so as to form on the wrong side a slanting line. Insert the needle again as for common back stitch
408.--Natalie.
Material: Messrs. Walter Evans and Co.'s Embroidery Cotton No. 30
The initial letter of this word contains all those following, and is surrounded by a wreath of roses and other flowers; these are worked in satin stitch, the leaves in point de pois, the letters in raised satin stitch. The dots which are represented on the groundwork of the initial are worked in back stitching; these may be worked in scarlet ingrain cotton if desired for morning handkerchiefs
