wards the edge, where it will form a
knot. In the diagram one of the stitches has been partly undone in order
to show the working more clearly. When the two sides are bound with the
stitch, they can be laced together with another thread as in the
illustration.

PICOTS

Picots are commonly in use in lace work and they are sometimes required
for embroidery purposes, especially in the kinds of work nearly allied
to lace, such as cut work, or for an added ornament to an edging stitch.

[Illustration: Fig. 77.]

Fig. 77 shows too small picots added to a buttonhole bar, and on the
lower bar is shown the method of working the left-hand picot. The pin
that passes into the material behind the bar can be fixed in the bar
itself if there happens to be no material underneath. After reaching
the point illustrated in the diagram, the needle draws the thread
through, thus making a firm knot round the loop. This completes the
picot, the bar is then buttonholed to the end. The second picot is made
in much the same way; instead, however, of putting the needle as the
diagram shows, bring the thread up through the centre of the loop, then
round under the pin from left to right, and it will be in position to
make three buttonhole stitches along the loop, which completes the
second example.

[Illustration: Fig. 78.]

The upper bar on fig. 78 shows a buttonholed picot. The bar must be
worked to the left-hand end of the required picot; the thread is then
from there taken back about one-eighth of an inch and threaded through
the edge of the buttonhole. This is repeated to and fro until there is a
loop composed of three threads ready to be buttonholed over. Upon this
being done, the thread will have arrived at the right point to continue
the bar.

Bullion stitch makes another simple picot--Work the bar to the point
where the picot is required, then, instead of taking the next stitch,
insert the point of the needle in the heading of the last stitch. Leave
the needle in this position, and twist the thread six or eight times
round the point of it, just as for the bullion knot (fig. 59). Place the
left thumb over the tight coil thus formed, and pull the needle and
thread through tightly in order to make the stitch double up into a
tight semi-circle, then continue the buttonholing to the end of the
bar.

CHAPTER VII

CANVAS WORK AND STITCHES

Introduction--Samplers--Petit Point Pictures--Cross Stitch--Tent
Stitch--Gobelin S