Excerpt from Raffia: Methods and Suggestions for Work in the Home, Schools, and Women's Institutes
TO return from this slight digression to the work itself. When the strand in the needle is getting used up, unthread it, and turn the remaining end into the tail. When a new strand is threaded, lay the end Of it, also, in the tail, and fasten all together with a long stitch into the row before. This stitch (over the tail and into the solid work) will be referred to later as the nucleus stitch.
The brick stitch. We will now proceed, on the nucleus previously described, to build the brick stitch, which is the simpler of the two basic stitches.
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