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Inger had written home to say she was well, and was learning a lot of things where she was. Her little girl was big, and was called Leopoldine, after the day she was born, the 15th November. She knew all sorts of things, and was a genius at hemstitch and crochet, wonderful fine work she could do on linen or canvas.
"Ethel and I hemstitch like birds," said Lillian Desmond. "Let's each do a side, there'll be four sides, I suppose." "Well, the tea-cloth seems in a fair way to get hemstitched," said Patty. "You can put a double row around it, if you like, and I'll be awfully glad to have it. I'll use it the first Saturday afternoon after I get settled." "I wish I knew where you're going to live," said Ethel.
Nearly every child had regular tasks; they were taught to use their hands as well as their eyes and thoughts, and Ruth was very proud that she could hemstitch nicely, and "set the heel" of a stocking, and finish off its toe. After Vinal brought the letter from Ruth's father Mrs.
I have been trying to think of some pleasure we could give her to make up for it in a way. A winter in Florida, maybe. Poor baby! if I could only bear it for her, how glad I would be to do it!" Mrs. Sherman picked up a bit of needlework from the table where she had left it, and, sitting down by the window, began to hemstitch.
I've spent so much time sitting by mommie when she's asleep, and I get tired of reading all the time, so a nurse in this ward mommie has a room to herself of course, but not a special nurse, because I can do a lot of the little things well, the nurse taught me how to hemstitch. So I got some silk and made some nice, soft neckerchiefs one for you and one for me. "This one I made last.
"Let's make Patty a tea-cloth, and we'll each write our name on it, and then embroider it, you know." "Lovely!" cried Christine. "Just the thing. Who'll hemstitch it? I won't. I'll embroider my name all right, but I hate to hemstitch." "I'll hemstitch it," said Elsie Morris. "I do beautiful hemstitching." "So do I," said Helen Preston. "Let me do half."
Morgan has gone, Mrs. Morgan wants to go to live with her children in Vancouver. She will sell cheaply, for a big place like that in a small village like the Glen will not be very easy to dispose of." "Well, it's certainly a beautiful place, so it is likely she will find a purchaser," said Anne, absently, wondering whether she should hemstitch or feather-stitch little Jem's "short" dresses.
Indeed you'd think there was something, to see the way she goes through her clothing. She's a perfect terror, Joyce! Well, take this bit of a yoke can you hemstitch as neatly as ever?" "Try me; I don't know. Ellen does everything now." "You have a maid?" "Oh yes, I could not live alone. But Ellen is scarcely that. She is too staid, too old and respectable. She is my companion, rather."
And when she found how neatly she could hemstitch and do such beautiful featherstitch, and darn, and read so plainly that it was a pleasure to listen to her, she had to admit that Hannah Ann was a real credit, and, she confessed in her secret heart, a very sweet little girl. "I've begun your new Irish chain patchwork," she said. "I've made one block for a pattern, and cut out quite a pile.
Miss Scudder, I wish sometimes you'd just let me make a ruffled shirt for him, and do it all up myself, and put a stitch in the hem that I learned from my sister Martha, who learned it from a French young lady who was educated in a convent; nuns, you know, poor things, can do some things right; and I think I never saw such hemstitching as they do there; and I should like to hemstitch the Doctor's ruffles; he is so spiritually-minded, it really makes me love him.
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