This shows how to pull the Canvas away after the Cross-Stitch is done.
Cats on a Chair Back.
Here is a very pretty thing that you will be able to make for Mother. How amused she will be, when she sees these two funny cats sparring at each other, and how nice the Chair Back will look hanging over the back of father’s chair, where he puts his head.
The Chair Back is hemstitched at each side and across each end, so before we commence to make it we will find out how to do this stitch.
Shall we take a small piece of linen and try and copy the little picture we have of the stitch just for practice? When you have tacked a hem along, draw out five of the horizontal threads of your linen, just beneath the edge of the hem.
They don’t look very pleased to meet, do they?
Now for the stitch itself. Hemstitching is always done on the wrong side of your piece of work, and the stitch is worked from right to left. Thread your needle with linen thread or a fairly coarse crochet cotton, and fasten the end of it to the commencement of the hem.