Fig. 735. Sixteenth lace stitch.
Sixteenth lace stitch (fig. [735]).—You begin this by a row of net stitches worked from right to left, or as the engraving shows, by a row of stitches called «seed stitches».
The second row, worked from left to right, consists of short bars, set slanting and shaped like a seed, and made the same way as the picot in fig. [699]. The first stitch is carried through the loop of the row below, the second over both threads and far enough from the loop to leave room for three other stitches. The first of the four button-hole stitches of the next group must be set quite close to the last.
Seventeenth lace stitch (fig. [736]).—Here we have the same pattern as the preceding one without the row of net stitches; the engraving shows us at the same time, the proper direction of the needle and thread for the row that is worked from right to left.
Fig. 736. Seventeenth lace stitch.
Fig. 737. Eighteenth lace stitch.