Fig. 652. Laying the threads for a wheel and beginning of the wheel.
Fig. 653. Wheels worked in two ways.
Fig. [653] shows, on the right, a finished wheel, and on the left, another way in which it can be made, and indicates the course of the thread over and under the lines, as in a darn. These details show also how, when the foundation thread of the wheel starts from a corner, it is left single in the first square until the wheel is finished; then the needle is slipped back along the little spoke, opposite to the single thread, and through the wheel, and the single thread is corded like the others.
Ribbed wheels (fig. [654]).—Make the foundation of the wheels as before, over 8 threads. To form the ribs at the back of the wheels, see fig. [654]; make a back stitch, on the right side, over a bar of the netting, and carry on the needle under one bar, so that the thread that lies outside always crosses 2 bars of the netting.
In this case you must make circles of thread enough, to cover the bars completely, not half, as before.
The same stitches, as fig. [654] shows, can be made on either side of the embroidery, and so as to form, either a square or a lozenge (see fig. [655]).