SHOWING SOME OF THE STITCHES USED ON THE CURTAIN.
You have now to work the rows of stars around to finish the border. These are worked as shown in the third specimen in your illustration of stitches. All the stitches of the star start from the centre hole, the four long stitches being worked over four threads of the canvas, and the four short stitches over 2; one thread of canvas is left between each star. There should also be four threads left between the points of the first row of stars and the stitches round the edge of the curtain. One row of stars is worked all round, a second row and a row of half stars being added across the bottom.
The Animals.
The animals are worked in cross-stitch, going over 2 threads of canvas for each cross. If you are not quite sure how to work cross-stitch, you can find out by looking at [page 26]. You will be able to count the crosses from the diagrams given. Of course, if your curtain is to be much larger than this one, you will have to leave more space between each animal.
Also, you might like to make your curtain of some other material instead of the canvas, and if you are using a plain material, without even threads to count, you can first tack Penelope canvas where you want your animals, and work over this, pulling the threads of canvas away after, as you see explained on [page 27]. For instance, the curtain would look quite nice made of unbleached calico in this way. You have a set of pictures on [page 111], showing the animals worked over Penelope canvas, and these will help you, if you are using calico, or casement cloth for your curtain.
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From these diagramsyou can easily countthe crosses for theanimals. | |
| You can see that this is the Swimming Duck. On the left is the Cock. |
