Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1893 — NEEDLE WORK DAISIES. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NEEDLE WORK DAISIES.

A New Fad for Women of Leisure Who Know How to Embroider. Most amateur embroiderers seek jome kind of work that involves a small amount of trouble giving good results, and this is found in daisy embroidery upon soft white muslin of spotted patterns. The object is to convert these spots into flowers that

more or less resemble daisies. Such spots as are dotted regularly over the muslin are easiest to manage, and therefore usually chosen. The following shows a more elaborate way of working the flowers when the spots are scattered among the details of a leafy, branching pattern. The spots are covered with French knots; the rays of the flowers are worked with spike stitches placed on each side of a straight line of split stitch. A good effect may also be gained by working these sections with feather veining, such as is used in many kinds of linen embroidery for the midribs of leaves and in similar places. This work is even prettier when a pale shade of pink or blue is used for the flowers than when the customary white filoselle is employed, which is rather apt to pass for a portion of the pattern already on the muslin.

DAISY WORK ON FANCY MUSLIN.