Fig. 730. Eleventh lace stitch.
Fig. 731. Twelfth lace stitch.
Twelfth lace stitch (fig. [731]).—Fasten on your thread, take it by overcasting stitches over the braid edge, half a c/m. from the corner, and make three button-hole stitches downwards, quite close together. The next loops, over four or six threads of the braid, must be left long enough to be on a level with the first stitch reaching downwards from the edge.
In the second row, you cover the long loops with three button-hole stitches and draw the intervening thread quite tight.
The third row is like the first, with the difference, that you put the needle in between the two threads of the button-hole stitch, instead of through the loops.
Thirteenth lace stitch (fig. [732]).—The stitch here represented, as well as the two next ones are looped from left to right and then again from right to left.
As it is more unusual to make the loops from left to right than the reverse way, the proper position of the needle and the course of the thread are shown in the illustrations.
Fig. [732] requires, in the first place, two button-hole stitches very close together in the edge of the braid, then a third stitch covering the two first stitches and set quite close to them; the connecting thread between these stitches must be tightly stretched so as to lie almost vertically, that the stitches may form straight lines.