Fig. 746. Twenty-seventh lace stitch.
Fig. 747. Twenty-eighth lace stitch.
Twenty-eighth lace stitch (fig. [747]).—Between every group of three bars, set close together, leave a space of a corresponding width; then bring the thread back over the bars, as in figs. [737], [738] and [739], without going through the loops. In the second row, you make three bars in the empty space, two over the three bars of the first row and again three in the next empty space. The third row is like the first.
Twenty-ninth lace stitch (fig. [748]).—This stitch, known as Greek net stitch, can be used instead of button-hole bars for filling in large surfaces.
Make bars from left to right, a little distance apart as in fig. [741], leaving the loops between rather slack, so that when they have been twice overcast by the returning thread, they may still be slightly rounded. In the next row, you make the bar in the middle of the loop and lift it up sufficiently with the needle, for the threads to form a hexagon like a net mesh.
Fig. 748. Twenty-ninth lace stitch.