Identifier: dictionaryofnee04caul (find matches)
Title: The dictionary of needlework : an encyclopaedia of artistic, plain, and fancy needlework dealing fully with the details of all the stitches employed, the method of working, the materials used, the meaning of technical terms, and, where necessary, tracing the origin and history of the various works described
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Caulfeild, S. F. A. (Sophia Frances Anne), 1824-1911 Saward, Blanche C
Subjects: Needlework
Publisher: London : A.W. Cowan
Contributing Library: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library

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osing thepatches; thus, all the large squares can be made of aground colour, and differently coloured and shaped flowersApplique on to them, and the oblongs may be formedof different shades of one colour, instead of one shadeonly, while the small squares can be made of velvet orsatin, instead of chiutz, with the centre square of plainmaterial, and the four outer squares of variegated, orvice versa. (A). A pretty set pattern, made with three differentsized patches, and forming a combination of squares,crosses, and hexagons. To work as shown in Fig. 053: Cutout in black satin a number of perfect squares, 1^ inchesin width and length, and some of the same size in yellowsatin. Cut out in red silk, lozenge-shaped or pointed ob-long patches, each measuring 3 inches from point topoint, 1\ inches across, \h inches for the long lines,and % inch for the short lines that form the right angle.Take some violet silk, and cut a number of largerLozenges, 4 inches from point to point, 2 inches across,
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Fig. C53. Mosaic Patchwork (No. 4). 3 inches for the long lines, and 1; inches for the short linesthat form the right angle. Join together five squares asa square cross, one dark square being in the centre, andfour light ones round it; take a black square, and join toit four red Lozenges, and sew the points of the Lozengesto each other. Sew the cube thu3 made to the outside ofone of the arms of the cross, so that the centre square ison the same line as the centre of the cross, and fill in thespaces on the sides of the cubes and cross, with the violetLozenges. Continue the pattern by connecting a crossto a cube, and a cube to a cross, always filling up withthe violet Lozenges. The pattern measures across one cube and a cross 9 inches, and as each design takes fourlight squares, two dark squares, four red Lozenges, andfour violet Lozenges, a brief calculation will give thenumber of patches required for a given space, to whichmust be added a few extra of all the sizes, to fill incorners,

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