ILLUSTRATIONS
| He fell headlong to the floor | Frontispiece |
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|---|---|
| “You can do it! You can do it!” | 17 |
| She ran to get a pretty dress | 22 |
| Running ribbon in beading | 24 |
| From the tip of her nose | 30 |
| Threading needle | 31 |
| Basting | 32 |
| Running | 33 |
| “Mark with pins” | 41 |
| Hemming | 42 |
| Blanket-stitch | 49 |
| “Blanket-stitching is quite easy” | 51 |
| Running around the hole | 56 |
| Darning up and down | 57 |
| Darning across | 58 |
| “Hold the stocking stretched on your hand” | 59 |
| Catch-stitch | 65 |
| “I’ll put you to sleep in your little bed” | 67 |
| “Hold the goods lengthwise and cut” | 71 |
| Basting and running on outside of bag | 73 |
| Basting and back-stitching on inside of bag | 73 |
| Back-stitching | 75 |
| Basting and hemming casing on inside of bag | 76 |
| Finished bag | 76 |
| Eyelet for casing | 77 |
| She went through some simple exercises | 80 |
| Making eyelets | 86 |
| Cross-stitch | 92 |
| “Press the letters on the wrong side” | 94 |
| The birds were singing | 98 |
| Mending tear | 99 |
| Gathering lace | 107 |
| Sewing on lace | 107 |
| “’Tis done at last” | 109 |
| “Ouch! I’m caught” | 113 |
| First bastings | 116 |
| Third basting | 116 |
| Sewing edge of hole | 119 |
| Sewing around patch | 119 |
| There they all were | 122 |
| Four kinds of buttons | 125 |
| Ornamental shank pearl buttons | 127 |
| Two kinds of buttons | 127 |
| Coming up the stairs singing to herself | 132 |
| Chain-stitch | 134 |
| “Follow a thread of the goods” | 140 |
| Bar half-way around | 142 |
| Bar | 142 |
| Overcasting half around | 143 |
| Buttonhole-stitch | 144 |
| Finished buttonhole | 144 |
| “Measure one inch up from the hem top” | 150 |
| Basting first tuck | 152 |
| Tucks basted ready for stitching | 154 |
| “I stitched ’em myself” | 159 |
| Basting gathers to band | 161 |
| Basting down band | 162 |
| Sewing on rickrack | 170 |
| “I’ll need to wear my apron gay” | 174 |
| Outline-stitch | 180 |
| “My doll will be glad on Christmas” | 181 |
| “Fold each square over diagonally” | 186 |
| Hemstitching | 187 |
| Hem rolling | 190 |
| First overcasting | 194 |
| Second overcasting | 196 |
| Blanket-stitch | 196 |
| Wrapping up her Christmas gifts | 198 |
| “For Mother as a surprise” | 202 |
| Lazy-daisy stitch | 203 |
| French knots | 205 |
| “A silver wrist-watch for my birthday!” | 213 |