Fig. 88.—A guest towel marked with cross-stitch.
EXERCISES AND PROBLEMS
1. If any one in your town has an old sampler, try to get it for a loan exhibit, while the girls are making their cross-stitching.
2. Make a design for cross-stitch work suitable for an end of a towel or for any article you wish.
Lesson 8
HOW TO MAKE THE HEMSTITCH
Do you know that some girls are often confused and call the hemstitch, the hemming stitch? Barbara Oakes used to, but understands now. You have learned the hemming stitch; now you will try the hemstitch.
