Fig. 2.
To turn the corner, after making your 4th stitch, bring your needle up into the 4th hole from the top of your satin stitch, not the 4th from the bottom as before. Make one little block this way. Turn another corner in exactly the same way, bringing the needle up in the 4th hole from the top of the satin stitch. Start another block. When you have put the needle down for the 4th stitch of this block, bring it up 4 holes below the last hole at which you brought it up. Then put it back into the last hole at which you brought it up. [Fig. 3] will make this clear. Make 4 stitches, now working from right to left. Turn again, and make 4 stitches, working from left to right. You will notice that wherever you turn a little corner—or make an angle—2 stitches go into the same hole, one each way.
Fig. 3.
When you have made 8 little blocks in this way, turn again, and make 4 blocks of satin stitch as you did on the first side, the last stitch of the 4th block should take you back into the hole we called your starting point. If it doesn’t, you have made a little mistake somewhere—either you have missed a thread, or made two stitches in one hole, or something like that, and you will have to undo the work until you find your mistake. This sounds rather hard lines, doesn’t it, but unless you have got this outside part right, you cannot cut and draw the threads properly, and we want to have Mother’s sachet quite perfect, don’t we?
Fig. 4.
With the Scissors.