"Cotton thread?"
"Cotton thread—of about the same color."
"You can work sweet grass just so, except that you can wrap that with a piece of itself."
"When you have enough material," went on Della, "you begin the sewing. If you're going to make a round or an oblong mat you decide which right at the beginning and coil the centre accordingly. Then all you have to do is to go ahead. Don't let the stitches show and sew on until the mat is big enough."
"And for a basket I suppose you pile the braids upon each other when you've made the bottom the size you want it."
"Exactly. And you can make the sides flare sharply or slightly just as we made them do with the rattan."
"What's the matter with making baskets of braided crêpe paper?" asked James. "My whole being has been wrapped in paper for a week so it may influence my inventive powers unduly, but I really don't see why it shouldn't work."
"I'm sorry to take you off your perch," remarked Ethel Brown, "but I've seen one."
"O—oh!" wailed James in disappointment. "They were pretty though, weren't they?"
"They were beauties. There was a lovely color combination in the one I saw."