ONE OF THE CROSS-STITCH DOGS.
From the illustrations of the dog and the letters, you will easily be able to count the crosses, and see how they are placed. If baby’s name is not May, and you want to work another name, designs for a whole alphabet appear on another page.
When you have worked all your designs, the canvas threads must be pulled away. Cut the canvas down fairly close to the embroidery, and pull out the threads one by one. Baby’s name is shown with all the threads of the ‘Y’ pulled out, and the ‘A’ as it looks when only the cross threads have been pulled away.
To make up the feeder, place the plain portion of the feeder over the embroidered one, with the right sides facing one another, and run round all the edges about a quarter of an inch in from the edge, leaving only the curved neck edges open. A running stitch, with a back-stitch put in now and then, is the best for this, as this will hold it firm. Turn the feeder out on the right side, then turn in the neck edges and oversew them together. How the oversewing stitch is made is shown in the little illustration on this page. Hold the edges to be joined together firmly in your left hand, and work from right to left, always putting your needle in slanting just as the little picture shows, and taking up about a couple of threads of the material from each of the edges you are joining together.
MAKING OVER-SEWING STITCHES.
The piece of work in the illustration has been flattened out, in order that you may see the stitches more clearly; but when you are oversewing you will hold the two pieces together with the thumb and first finger of your left hand, oversewing the top of the two edges.
Now cut your length of ribbon in half, and sew one piece to each end of the neck of the feeder, so that it can be tied round baby’s neck when she wants to take her food.
