tch begins half-way up the one before and after it.

[Illustration: 95.--Leaf Raised.]

[Illustration: 96.--Leaf Raised.]

[Illustration: 97.--Raised Leaf.]

ILLUSTRATIONS 95 to 97 (_Leaf in Raised Embroidery).--This kind of
embroidery is particularly beautiful, as it is worked separately and
sewn on the material with an outline in very fine cotton, this produces
the shade seen in 95 (see also illustrations 98 to 113). For such leaves
work first one half in overcast and satin stitch (illustration 96); the
other half is worked on a separate piece of material (see illustration
97); cut away the material along the overcast outline, and fasten it on
the foundation material along the outline which forms the veining on
illustration 96.

[Illustration: 98.--Raised Embroidered Leaf.]

[Illustration: 99.--Half of Leaf (98).]

[Illustration: 100.--Centre of Leaf (98).]

ILLUSTRATIONS 98 TO 100 show a similar leaf; both halves are worked
separately (see 99); the centre is worked in open lace stitch. The
latter (see No. 100) is traced, then make ladder stitches across, work
the outlines in overcast stitch, and cut away the material underneath
the ladder stitch. The cross stitches are then worked in darning stitch
with very fine cotton wherever two threads meet.

[Illustration: 101.--Blossom in Satin Stitch.]

ILLUSTRATION 101 (_Blossom in Satin Stitch_).--The eyelet is worked in
overcast stitch, then work the upper part of the blossom all in one
piece as far as the beginning of the veining, thence the blossom is
worked in two halves.

[Illustration: 102.--Blossom in Satin Stitch.]

[Illustration: 103.--Bead partly covered.]

ILLUSTRATIONS 102 & 103 (_Blossom in Satin Stitch_).--The raised centre
of this flower is formed by a bead, over which the embroidery is worked.
When the leaves have been worked one after the other, place a bead in
the centre, left free in such a manner that one hole lies on the
material, and work over the bead by inserting the needle into its upper
hole, then underneath the material, drawing it out above the material
close to the bead, and so on (see 103).

[Illustration: 104.--Star in Satin Stitch.]

ILLUSTRATION 104 (_Star Pattern in Satin Stitch_).--The centre, which
forms a wheel, is worked first. Draw the threads across the circle
marked by an outline; in the centre they are wound round, always taking
one thread _on the needle_ and leaving the next thread _under the
needle_, a