Fig. 765. Filling in round spaces. First circle of wheels begun.
Fig. 766. Filling in round spaces. The two circles of wheels finished.
Fig. [765] shows how to finish a row of loops with wheels worked upon three threads only. In the first row, you make a wheel over each bar; in the second, you make a bar between every two wheels; in the third, the wheels are only made over every second bar; a fourth row of bars which you pick up with a thread completes the interior of the circle, then you work along the bars with overcasting stitches, fig. [766], to carry the thread back to the edge of the braid where you fasten it off.
Needle-made picots (figs. [767], [768], [769]).—The edges and outlines of Irish lace are generally bordered with picots, which as we have already said can be bought ready-made (see fig. [692]). They are not however very strong and we cannot recommend them for lace that any one has taken the pains to make by hand.
Fig. 767. Connected needle-made picots.
In fig. [767], the way to make picots all joined together is described. You begin, as in fig. [762], by a knot, over which the thread is twisted as indicated in the engraving.