“Oh look!
dear
Sewing
Bird”
1. Five holes down—four from left hand end, from wrong side, bring needle to right side.
2. Through hole below this, point needle down, and up through the one from which the thread hangs. Do not pull through.
3. Take hold of the two threads in the eye of the needle, bring them toward you around under the point of the needle. Let them rest there.
4. Pull needle through.
5. With left thumb on the stitch, pull the thread with the right hand tightly down to the edge of the canvas.
6. Repeat to end of row.
“Oh, look! dear Sewing Bird,” cried Mary Frances, holding up her work, “I really do believe that is the way Mother makes a button-hole! She said she would show me how to do it very soon. How glad I am I know that stitch!”
“Yes,” said Sewing Bird. “Won’t she be surprised! You know eleven stitches now.”
“Why, so I do!” exclaimed Mary Frances, counting her little samplers of work.
Buttonhole Stitch
“Now,” said Sewing Bird, “will you please cut a piece of canvas eight inches long and four and one-half inches wide, and make a sampler of all the stitches you know. Will you write down the directions?”