How to Make Padded Applique' Wall Hangings

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January/February 1978
 
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CHAIN STITCH: The chain stitch can help you cover a lot of space quickly ... and attractively. Just how quickly depends on how big you make the "loops". First bring the needle through to the fabric's front side. Next, hold the thread down with your left hand and insert the needle back through the cloth very close to where it first emerged. Then bring the point of the needle up through the cloth a second time in front of your first entry point. Pull the needle through, while you keep the thread under its point so that the next stitch holds it down against the face of the fabric in a loop.

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FRENCH KNOTS: Here, each "stitch" resembles a dot or bead. First pull your needle through from the back to your cloth's front side. Next take the working thread in your left hand and wind It two or three times around the needle, close to its point. Then — while you hold the thread taut in the left hand — insert the needle close to where it first emerged. Now either pull the needle through to the back of the cloth and tie off the stitch, or — if you intend to make a series of French knots — bring the needle through to the front of the fabric again in position for the next stitch.

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