1. Draw a picture on the blackboard of the blanket stitch.
2. Bring to school some article on which the blanket stitch is used in some way. Have an exhibit of all the articles brought.
Lesson 7
LEARNING TO MAKE THE CROSS-STITCH
Did your grandmother ever tell you how she learned to sew when she was a girl? Have you seen her sewing sampler? Shall we learn the stitch she used on her sampler?
Courtesy of Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Fig. 85.—Two samplers of long ago.