Before the day of the sewing machine sewing the family home and everything was done by hand. Today we have factories and workshops, and we can put many garments ready to buy. All the little girls were taught to sew at home in those days. Sewing was not widely taught in school. Many long seams were given to girls to sew. TheGirls had learned a lot of practice and very good at sewing. Every girl should do on a sampler. The picture shows two samplers (Fig. 85). Barbara Oakes has two samplers values it very much because her great-grandmother and grandmother who made them. Maybe you can create a culture that made your grandmother. The sting of the collectors used mostly came the cross-stitch (Fig. 87). Want to learn how to do them, too? It is a decorative stitch and is often used for marking linen.Grandmother and great-grandmother used to her sheets, pillowcases and other brand clothes with little cross-stitch initials. It is also possible that the pictorial design of the same stitch to make. Maybe you want to learn to make such a pattern. It is necessary to have to make graph paper, and the crosses correspond to the numbers or letters wanted. The image (Fig. 86) shows how the crosses fit the squares. Two samplers of a long time ago. Courtesy of the MetropolitanMuseum of Art. Two samplers of a long time ago. Cross Stitch Designs can easily be done on graph paper. A first for the towel, B, cover design for the replay on the table or scarf. – Cross-Stitch Designs can easily be done on graph paper. A first for the towel, B, cover design for the replay on the table or scarf. Will you try to make a design for the cross stitch on? As the design is done in the squares, it is necessary to squared canvas as Penelope canvas in useOne problem of this cross-stitch. The canvas is basted and made available the threads on the squares of the canvas, according to the design of the pattern. There are some coarse materials that can be pursued without a screen. The canvas is woven so loosely that is ready for the cross-stitch design, the threads are pulled out. How the trick: Baste the screen carefully, so that is the warp of the canvas on the warp of the cloth. The canvas is available in several sizes, as some finerother, and that makes a difference in the size of the design when finished. The engraving consists of two crossed diagonal lines. On the wrong side of all the stings can be either vertically or horizontally, but should one or the other. Do you know the difference? The canvas is woven so that you make the cross more than two threads high and two wide. Bring needle to the right on the bottom left corner of the square that the bite would, if included (Fig. form 87). Matching thread diagonally across chainThreads, and take in accordance with chain stitch, needle pointing in the direction of workers. The thread is pulled through an oblique line of the half made the cross. This can be repeated over a range depending on model, and the cross completed by returning from right to left with the same vertical stitches. It is necessary to all the tricks of making the crossing a road: the ground stitches, or the first half, have a way to the other half, or upper stitches, all the others. The CrossLurch. The cross-stitch. What nice gifts can be made from the cross-stitch? Towels hemstitched between the ends and are provided with cross-stitch make attractive gifts for the mother or grandmother. A pretty in a baby bath towel set by a mark made towels and washcloths with a pretty wreath design with baby’s first. Bureau covers, table scarves, pincushions can be made. Here is a picture (Fig. 88) from a simple cross stitch towel with initials. The cloth is made ofHuckaback, sheets. You can remember who bought in all cotton, have also, or a combination. Which is more expensive? The width varies. The image shows a small guest towel 18 cm wide. It is easy to learn, linen hemstitching. Shall we try next lesson? The picture  created hemstitching imagination and work. We will learn the level hemstitching. A guest towel, with cross-stitch. A guest towel, with cross-stitch. Exercises and problems If a personin your town has an old sampler, try to get a loan, showing, while the girls make their cross-stitching. Make a design for cross-stitch work for an end of a towel or for an item you want. The completed cross stitch for you

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