Working on rugs stiches
rugs
As pile stitches will be considered before those for smooth-faced rugs, it would be as well to assume that the sampler to be worked first is for pile stitches. That being so the plaited edging stitch, or plait as it will usually be called, should be started at the top right-hand corner hole of the sampler with the cut edge uppermost. The needle is successively:
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brought from the back of the canvas leaving 2 or 3 inches of the tail end of the wool
lying along the top edge (where it can be held by the free hand) to be covered by
subsequent stitches;
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brought through the next hole to the left (again from back to front);
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taken back to the original hole a second time (thus forming a cross stitch over the
top of the canvas);
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carried forward 3 holes, i.e. leaving out holes 2 and 3;
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taken back 2 holes to hole 2.
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