Fig. 373. Darning on threads stretched obliquely across. Position of the threads.
Fig. 374. Darning on threads stretched obliquely across. How to cover the oblique threads.
Fasten in, from the right side, a rather finer thread than the one the original web is made of, and make a few stitches over the existing ones, in the row you are about to complete.
Enter the needle upwards from below, through the first disengaged loop, pass it under two threads issuing from one loop, and then bring it back again into the same loop between the two slanting threads, drawing it out again upwards from below, through the next loop, and so on. The new loop must be just equal to the old ones in size. Make in the same manner as at the beginning, two or three stitches at the end of the row, within the edge of the hole. Work back in a similar way, with this difference only, that you turn your work round.
Piqué pattern (fig. [375]).—The following patterns are suitable for making counterpanes, petticoats, vests and other articles of clothing. Select a suitable number of Coton à tricoter D.M.C. Cast on a number of stitches divisible by 7, and begin by 6 rows of 5 plain stitches and 1 purled, taken from behind.
7th row—purl from behind the 3rd of the 5 plain, and knit 5 plain more and so on.
Fig. 375. Piqué pattern.
Materials: Coton à tricoter D.M.C Nos. 6 to 30.