Wallachian stitch] The leaves or petals of a Wallachian figure are worked on the slant, and here is the difference from ordinary buttonholing and the distinctive feature of Wallachian embroidery.
Some people insist on crowding the stitches as in regular fine buttonholing, which is quite a mistake, as its distinctness lies in dissimilarity to the ordinary buttonholing (Figure 122).
The middle figure is made by working a row of open buttonholingthen running a drawing thread into the loops and buttoning this band with tiny stitches.
If a piece of buttonholing is well done it is hard to distinguish one stitch from the other, and yet they must not be made one on top of the other or the buttonholing will be rough.
This is turned under till the running thread forms the edge and then the buttonholing is worked through both thicknesses of the material.
In this way there is no necessity for cutting and buttonholing the corners where the border intersects, as in drawn work.
The round corners are worked in the same buttonhole stitch, only it is twice the depth of the buttonholing along the two edges.
The entire eyelet may be carried out in buttonholing or the lower half may be buttonholed and the top worked in the regular way.
Buttonholing the edge is preferred by many to hemstitching.
The triangular buttonholing] Then there are fancy forms of buttonholing that are used especially in Mount Mellick work.
Remember that the wider the buttonholing the more padding will be necessary.
An elaborate piece of buttonholing and satin-stitch] Any girl can make dainty and original designs for eyelet work if she will invest in compasses.
You von't forget me," whispered Pinchas, buttonholing the editor at the first opportunity, and placing his forefinger insinuatingly alongside his nose.
No, wait, yet a little," said Pinchas, buttonholinghim resolutely.
The capsule of Tenon is opened below the external rectus by grasping it with forceps and buttonholing it with the scissors.
At the same time it is important to avoid buttonholing the septum by cutting into the opposite nostril.
And I thought--I thought--to put the matter so easily to them that I should be spared the necessity of buttonholing them!
It was a novel way ofbuttonholing them," he laughed.
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.
Commence by overcasting the threads from point D, and upon reaching the part where the pattern is widened out, change the stitch to an open buttonholing (as shown on line B).
For this reason only a small quantity of silk is required for working, as none is used for buttonholing the edge.
No silk is therefore required for buttonholing the edge.
Scalloped edges in netting should be buttonholed; 2 or 3 padding threads should be run in first, following the bars of the netting, over which the buttonholing is done; the bars of the netting must not be cut away until the edge be finished.
You slightly separate the stitches of the first row of buttonholing so as to be able to introduce the thread of the second row between them.
Loops are made by buttonholing very closely over several foundation threads, making the purl on the outside edge.
The feathery stem (A) on the sampler is simply a buttonholing worked alternately from right to left and left to right.
The band at K is merely surface buttonholingover a series of slanting stitches.
Between two rows of buttonholing (dark on sampler) a single row of Oriental-stitch is worked.
