“My thread knotted,” Veve explained. Out of the corner of her eyes, she had noticed that Miss Gordon frowned as she examined a badly stitched orange block. “Anyway, I don’t like to sew!”
“Why, Veve!” Miss Gordon smiled at the little girl. “Our lovely quilt is nearly finished now.”
First she unknotted the tangled thread and sewed a few neat stitches just to encourage Veve.
Then she told the Brownies they might put away their patchwork for the day. Connie and Sunny began to pass the cookies and glasses of cool milk.
Veve scarcely nibbled at her cookie. Instead, she kept reading the advertising page of the paper.
“I wish I could find an easy way to make money,” she mumbled. “Only no one seems to want a baby sitter.”
Miss Gordon began to tell the girls about the various types of quilts.
“Beautiful patterns were originated by pioneer women who outdid themselves to see how cleverly they could piece the blocks,” she declared. “Many of our earliest American patterns were adapted from designs on rugs and shawls brought to this country from Europe and the Orient.”
“Quilt patterns have names too,” declared Rosemary eagerly.