You can either use red cord or a narrow red ribbon for threading through your bag, and you will want a yard and a half. Cut this into two even lengths.
Then thread a bodkin with one piece, and starting from the left hand side of the bag, thread it right round the bag through the runner you made at the bottom of the hems. When you have got it right through, sew the two ends of the ribbon together, and pull it round from the right side so that the join does not show; this will leave you with a long loop of ribbon hanging from the right side of the bag. Now take the other piece of ribbon and do exactly the same from the left side of the bag.
Now when you pull the loops at each side the bag will draw up nice and evenly at the top.
Here you see what the lambs look like worked on Penelope Canvas. Aren’t they frisky!
The Invalid.
I’m ’fraid I can’t go out to-day,
My baby’s cough is worse;
And if she isn’t better soon
I’ll have to have a nurse,—