"Oh, mother!" exclaimed Mary Jane. That was all she could say, she was so
surprised and pleased.

"I thought you'd like that," said her mother. "Now, while I get out my
sewing, you look over the pictures and see which one you'd rather make
first. Then pick out the color thread you want to sew with and I'll show
you how to cut the skein and thread your needle."

Mary Jane looked once through the pile of cards and then again before she
could make a choice. She finally laid out one that had a picture of a
little girl in a big sunbonnet and another of a sunflower growing in a
garden. "There, now!" she asked her mother, "which shall I make? I want to
do both right away quick and see what they look like when they are sewed."

"Let's make the little girl first," suggested mother, "and make her wear a
pink sunbonnet just like yours. Then you can make the sunflower next and
the two together will be Mary Jane working in a garden."

That suited Mary Jane exactly; so the thread was cut, the needle threaded
(and that wasn't nearly as hard work as Mary Jane had feared it would be,
thanks to the needle's big eye) and she set to work.

Such a busy morning as they did have--Mary Jane and her mother! Mary Jane
liked sewing even better than she had thought she would and she worked
faithfully. So faithfully that by the time the clock said, "time to get
lunch"! the little girl with the pink sunbonnet was all finished and the
thread was ready to begin the sunflower.

"Ugh!" exclaimed Mary Jane with a big stretch, "we worked hard, didn't we,
mother?"