feather-stitching each quarter diagonally across with alternate black,
red, and yellow lines.

[Illustration: PATTERN OF EACH OF THE FOUR SIDES OF SCRAP-BAG.]

[Illustration: SCRAP-BAG IN TURKISH TOWELING.]


ANOTHER SCRAP-BAG.

The upper part of this bag is made of silver perforated paper. Buy a
strip a foot long and six inches wide, and embroider it all over in
alternate lines of cross and single stitching, using single zephyr
worsted, blue or rose-colored. Cut a piece of stiff card-board of
exactly the same size, and line it with pink or blue silk to match the
worsted. Sew the two ends together to form a circle, lay the silver
paper smoothly over it, stitch down, and trim both edges with plaited
satin ribbon three-quarters of an inch wide.

This is the top of your bag. The bottom is crocheted in worsted by the
ordinary long stitch, and sewed to the silver-paper top piece under
the satin ribbon. A worsted tassel finishes the lower end.


ARTISTIC EMBROIDERY.

Just here a word to the girls about embroidery. In old days, when
embroidery was the chief occupation of noble dames and demoiselles,
the needle was used as a paint-brush might be, to make a picture of
some real thing or some ideal occurrence. For instance: the Bayeux