Margaret scrubbed hard and succeeded in getting a variety of shading through the amount of paint that she allowed to soak entirely through or partway through the material. When she had done as many stars as there were openings on the pattern she took out the pins and moved the stencil along so that the holes came over a fresh piece of material, making sure that the space between the first new star and the last old one was the same as that between the stars on the stencil.
"How can we boys apply that?" asked James.
"You can stencil on anything that you would decorate with painting," said Ethel Brown.
"Your jig-saw disks, Tom. Stencil a small conventional pattern on each one—a star or a triangle."
"Here's a stencil of a vine that would be a beauty on one of your large plain pasteboard boxes, James."
"Dorothy has been turning white cheesecloth doll clothes into organdie muslins by stenciling on them these tiny sprays of roses and cornflowers and jasmine."
"I'm going to do roosters and cats and dogs on a lot of bibs for the babies."
"You'd better save a few in case Mademoiselle really sends us that Belgian baby."
"I'll make some more if it does turn up."
"Aunt Marion gave me some cotton flannel—"