EXERCISES AND PROBLEMS
1. Practice cutting some bias strips. Be sure they are true bias edges. How can you tell?
2. Try to make the stitching stitch on teacher's demonstration cloth, with the large needle and red worsted.
Lesson 5
THE OVERHANDING STITCH
A new game and a new stitch. Let us make the bags with the new stitch before we learn to play the game.
Perhaps, instead of a potholder, you had rather make iron holders or bean bags for your League Fair. Have you ever played bean bag game? The Pleasant Valley school children often play this game at recess. You can easily make the bags and also the board.
Fig. 20.—The overhanding stitch.