you have
copied the one quarter, given in fig. 868, you must lay this first
quarter on again at the cross + on the left side; when the second
quarter is finished, you again turn the copy to the left and tack it on
at the +; when you come to the fourth quarter the lines of the first
quarter must exactly meet those of the last. We beg here to draw
attention to the directions, relative to the copying of patterns, given
in the subsequent chapter.

BASKET STITCH ON LINEN (fig. 869).--This stitch has some resemblance
with the Greek stitch, fig. 278, and the Montenegrin, fig. 306, only
that it is not crossed like the latter.

[Illustration: FIG. 869. BASKET STITCH ON LINEN.]

Basket stitch can be worked on all kinds of stuffs, on counted threads
or on a wide or narrow tracing, with fine or coarse thread, and more or
less closely, according to the taste of the worker.

You insert the needle from right, and pass it under, from 3 to 6 threads
of the foundation, according to the stuff and the material you are
using, then downwards from left to right, and over, from 6 to 8 threads,
into the stuff again from right to left; then you push it under the
stuff in an upward direction and bring it out on the left in the middle
of the space left between the last stitch and the top of the second. The
dotted line in the engraving indicates the course of the stitches.

[Illustration: FIG. 870. OLD GERMAN KNOTTED STITCH.]

OLD GERMAN KNOTTED STITCH (fig. 870).--This is a stitch often met with
in old church and house linen embroidery. A beautiful design worked in
this way is given further on.

Contrary to most stitches, this is worked upwards; the needle is put in
horizontally under the stuff, the thread tightly drawn, then laid from
left to right and drawn through underneath the first stitch and a tight
knot made. We find the same stitch, worked in a variety of ways,
according to the taste and skill of the worker; for instance the knots
may be set slanting, as in fig. 870, or else straight and very close
together, as in fig. 873, where they present the appearance of a close
string of beads, or again wide apart, as they are in fig. 876.

All these ways are admissible but care should be taken in each case, to
make the stitches perfectly regular; it is the direction which is given
to the stitch and the number of threads taken up with the needle that
changes the appearance of the stitch.

[Illustration: FIG. 871. RAISED STEM STITCH.]

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