Throw the thread again across the empty space and over the first thread, bring your needle back to the middle, make a big wheel over four threads, passing each time under the same threads, then overcast the single thread, come back to the edge of the braid and make the second loop, bringing out the thread at the same place where the other stitches came out.
Insertion with cones (figs. [716] and [717]).—Over plain but very distended Russian stitch, make darning stitches backwards and forwards, beginning at the point and reaching to the middle, so as to form small cone-shaped figures.
To reach the point of the next cone you overcast the thread of the Russian stitch several times.
You may also, as in fig. [717], double the Russian stitch and make the darning stitches in such a manner that the points of the cones touch each other and their bases meet the edge of the braid. The same thing, worked the reverse way, that is, with the points turned outwards to the edge, produces a not less pretty effect.
Fig. 716. Insertion with cones.
Fig. 717. Insertion with cones.
Insertion with embroidered squares (fig. [718]).—After making rows of loose button-hole stitches along the braid edges, as in figs. [707], [708], [709], run a thread through the button-hole stitches; this thread serves as the foundation to the Russian stitches by which the two edges are joined together. The empty square space left between the Russian stitches is then filled up with button-hole stitches, like those in fig. [651], in the foregoing chapter.