A heart-shaped pillow is an ideal jift. It adds a cozy touch to any ’orner and serves as a reminder of oving thoughts all year round. The pillow shown here is done in chicken scratch,” one of today’s nost popular crafts. It is available is a kit, complete with embroidery loss, needle, design chart, in ductions and enough red ;mgham for the pillow and ruffle. To order kit C-3110, send $lO to HENRY K. FISHER INC. SANDBLASTING AND SPRAY PAINTING Aerial Ladder Equipment 667 Hartman Station Rd. Lancaster, PA 393-6530 FARMER BOY AG, INC. r Diamond Systems' 2- and 3-High Modified Stair-Step Cage Layer Systems (1956 cm) 69 1 « (177 2 cm) System 809 16 (40 6 cm) (15 2 cm)l 63 (160 cm) Have a heart Ellen Appel Crafts, your newspaper’s name, Box 1144, Laguna Beach, CA 92652. (California residents please add 6Vz percent sales tax.) To leam more about making chicken scratch projects in different shapes and sizes, just read on. Chicken scratch is a craft that helps you make gingham look like lace. Because the designs are solid Distributor For DIAMOND POULTRY SYSTEMS Exclusive Contour Cage gives birds more room HANPWOVEN RAG RUGS ANY SIZE MOST ANY COLOR Will ship postpaid at 95* per square foot. Wholesalers welcome. Discount on 6 or more. < Henry L. Sworey RD #1 Box6A Newport, N.Y. 13416 >■ ■ M Farmington, Michigan iamond Systems’ New 4-5-6- High Stacked Layer Cage Systems 1 ■ E " r ° o> ® CD CJ The Best Equipment for converting old poultry houses to 1 140 6 t-m) ' L 42,1 - (108 cm) 60 _ (152 4 cm) maximum density New Diamond Systems 3-High Starter-Grower SALES & SERVICE For Buildings And Equipment CALL IRVIN HORST LARRY HORST Office (717) 866-7565 Office (717) 866-7565 Home (717) 866-2815 Home (717) 949-3022 SWINE & POULTRY SYSTEMS SPECIALISTS FARMER BOY AG. | INC ■4IOEUNCOLNAVE MYEPSTOWN PA 17067 PH 717 866 7565 BEST IN DESIGN. PRICE AND EXPERIENCE bands of stitches, you don’t have to be a stitchery expert to follow most patterns. To make a heart or any other shape, you stitch an outline in dark floss and then fill in the shape with white stitches. The gingham boxes help keep stitches even and pat terns symmetrical. If you can make a cross-stitch, you can learn chicken scratch stitches. The “smyma cross,” or double cross-stitch, is the basic stitch. Ordinary stitches and circles fill in the remaining spaces. Whether you make a heart, another shape or simpel border, you’ll find chicken scratch fast and easy to do. Here are directions for making chicken scratch shapes: MATERIALS: Gingham fabric; white and dark-colored floss; needle; graph paper and pencil, or chicken scratch chart. Optional: embroidery hoop. DRAWING YOUR OWN DESIGN: Note: Skip this paragraph if you have a chicken scratch chart. 1. Think of the graph paper as the squares in your gingham fabric. 2. Mark squares in your graph to correspond with the white squares in the gingham. 3. 6 (15 2 cm) ' j Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 28,1984—813 Draw a heart or other shape by connecting the white squares. 4. Locate and mark the center of your design. STITCHING THE DESIGN; 1. Find the center of your fabric. 2. Count squares to find the starting point of your design. 3. Position fabric in hoop. 4. Thread needle with three strands of dark floss. 5. Following your chart, make a double cross-stitch on each white square in your outline. DOUBLE CROSS-STITCH; 1. Make a cross-stitch as usual on the gingham square. 2. Take a vertical stitch over the cross-stitch. 3. Take a horizontal stitch over the cross stitch (a). FILLING IN THE DESIGN: 1. Thread needle with three stands of white floss. 2. Make a double cross stitch on each dark square inside the outlined shape. 3. Working across, sew a horizontal stitch between aJU the white squares. 4. Working up and down, sew a vertical stitch between all the white squares. 5. Stitch circles on the white squares by passing the needle under vertical and horizontal stitches (b). 6. Repeat if desired for a thicker circle.
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