Fig. 655. Ribbed squares or lozenges.
Wheels set with button-holing (fig. [656]).—A very pretty lace-like effect is produced by encircling the wheels in large squares of netting with a double setting of stitches. The left detail of fig. [656] shows how the thread, having been passed under the wheel and twisted once round the single thread, is carried all round the square and forms 8 loops.
Fig. 656. Wheels set with button-holing.
The arrow shows the way in which the loops are taken up, and the first ring of stitches round the wheel is finished.
The second detail of the same figure explains the course the thread, that forms the second ring, has to take through the loops and between the bars; whilst the white line shows the passage of the thread over the second ring. The third detail represents a wheel, completed.
Star with one-sided button-hole stitches (fig. [657]).—The pattern represented in fig. [657], is the quickest to work that we know of. Two button-hole stitches made upon the outside bar of a square and a simple crossing of the thread at the bottom, produce elongated triangles which should always be begun from the knot. Two triangles stand exactly opposite to each other in one square, and the square that comes in the middle of the four thus filled, is ornamented with a small wheel.
