These rows are intersected by others, to which the thread is passed, from between the sixth and seventh of the 12 threads between the first rows. Where the stitches of the two rows meet, the working thread of the second row must be drawn through, under that of the first.
Sixteenth pattern (fig. [159]).—Between every two rows of cross-stitch, leave an interval of 6 threads, counting those on each side of the rows. Over these 6 threads work 2 rows, as shown in fig. [148], but so, that in the second, the lower stitch of the first row and the upper one of the second, cover the same threads.
Seventeenth pattern (fig. [160]).—This consists of stripes, 4 stitches wide, like those of fig. [155], with 3 threads between, which are overcast in the ordinary manner.
Fig. 160. Seventeenth pattern.
Eighteenth pattern (fig. [161]).—Small squares of 7 stitches, inclined alternately, to the right and left, and so formed, that the longest stitch of one square is crossed by the first short stitch of the next, so that a space only 6 threads wide and 4 long, remains uncovered. The intervening stripes are filled with 3 rows of overcasting stitches, covering 2 threads each way.