When you have laid the thread round draw the needle through the loops; the bars must stand straight and be of uniform length. Were they to slant or be at all uneven, we should consider the work badly done.
In the row that is worked from left to right, the thread must be twisted round the needle, likewise from left to right.
Twenty-third lace stitch (fig. [742]).—This is begun with the same stitches as fig. [741], worked from right to left. You then take up every loop that comes between the vertical bars with an overcasting stitch, drawing the thread quite out, and tightening it as much as is necessary after each stitch. You cannot take several stitches on the needle at the same time and draw out the thread for them all at once, as this pulls the bars out of their place.
Fig. 742. Twenty-third lace stitch.
Fig. 743. Twenty-fourth lace stitch
Twenty-fourth lace stitch (fig. [743]).—This is often called the Sorrento stitch.
Every group of three bars of stitches is separated from the next by a long loop, round which the thread is twisted in its backward course. In each of the succeeding rows you place the first bar between the first and second of the preceding row, and the third one in the long loop, so that the pattern advances, as it were in steps.