It will be best to do your embroidery before you make up the bag, so that you can get at the work better. First fold your strip of material right across the centre, put a tacking line on this fold, and work your lambs just above this.
If you turn to [page 30] you will see how to work the cross-stitch designs, by placing canvas over your material first, and you have the lambs all drawn out for you in this article. Also you will find a whole alphabet of initials for working in cross-stitch on another page.
From the outline designs on this page, you will be able to count the crosses.
When you have finished the embroidery, fold the strip of material in half, with the right side inside, and sew it together at each side with a run and back stitch, leaving about 4 inches open at each side at the top of the back. When you have joined the seams, you must oversew them along the edges on the wrong side as well, so that they will not fray.
Now turn down a 2-inch hem at the top, on both sides of the bag, turning in the side edges of the hems; you can tack down the sides of the hems, so as to keep the edges in, but don’t sew them together just yet.
When you have hemmed the hems, you must put a row of running stitches along each hem, about half-an-inch above your hemming line, to make a runner, so that when you thread your ribbons through they will be held down at the bottom of the hem and not come right up to the top of the bag. Now you can oversew the ends of the hems together, leaving the little space between the running line and the hemming line open, so that you can thread your ribbon through. This part of the work must be done with fine sewing cotton the same colour as your material, as you do not want the stitches to show too much.
If you like you can embroider an even row of white crosses over the stitches on the right side of the bag; this makes a pretty finish.