Here is the Peacock with his tail drooping.
I think you will find it quite easy to count the crosses from the diagrams given, and the best way to make sure of getting the peacocks nicely even in the corners, like they are in the picture, is to count the number of open squares, from the corners of the diagrams to the commencement of the designs, and allow three threads for each square on your canvas. For instance, taking the peacock on the left of your cloth, you will need to start on the sixteenth square up from the lower hemstitched border, and one square to the right of the side border.
Remember, if you start the first cross right and work your crosses evenly, the design must come out even; all you have to do is to see that you don’t go over more than three threads of canvas for each cross.
This design would look very well on a cushion. In that case, the cushion cover could be made of serge, or of crash, or of linen. Crash is very easy to work on, and washes well. If the material is so fine that it tries your eyes to count the threads, then it is easy to tack Penelope canvas over the material, and work the cross-stitches on this, drawing the canvas threads out when the work is finished.
Some Pretty Bead-work.
There are very few little girls—or big ones either—who are not fond of beads. There is something so fascinating, isn’t there, in seeing what pretty things we can make by threading them. And there are so many lovely ways in which you can use beads.
GREEN VENETIAN AND SMALL CRYSTAL BEADS.