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Well, it's a comfort to know that he must be wrong. I wonder how Ally has got on with the work. Poor dear! I'll have to do more of that feather-stitching than ever, now that Ally has lost her situation." Alison looked up and saw her grandmother standing near her. She had, of course, been taught the feather-stitching. Mrs.
The difference at once apparent to the eye between the two is that, whereas for the mid-rib of a band or leaf of feather-stitching you have cross lines, in Oriental-stitch you have a straight line longer or shorter as the case may be. Oriental-stitch, sometimes called "Antique-stitch," is a stitch in three strokes, just as feather-stitch is a stitch in four.
There, we'll put the basket in the scullery; and now, Alison, come over to the light and take a lesson in the feather-stitching." Alison followed Mrs. Reed without a word. They both took their places near the window. "Thread that needle for me, child," said the old woman. Alison obeyed. Mrs.
Alison was very silent and depressed, but she promised to do exactly as her grandmother wished in the matter of the feather-stitching; and with the cambric made up into a neat parcel she soon left the little flat. Grannie sighed deeply when she saw her go. The little woman felt that she had burned her boats; there was no going back on anything now.
"Ef you have a bit of time you might go on with some of the needlework," she said. She thought of the hand which ached so sorely. "Yes, Grannie," replied Alison, turning slowly and looking at her. "You'll find the basket in the cupboard, love. I'm doing the feather-stitching now; don't you spoil the pattern." "No, Grannie," answered the girl.
Then she added abruptly, her lips quivering: "There aint no manner of use in your going out and tiring yourself." "Use or not, I am going," said Mrs. Reed. "By the way, if Jim should happen to come in, be sure you keep him. I have a bit of a saveloy in the cupboard to make a flavor for his tea. Don't you bother with that feather-stitching if Jim should be here."
"Think of all the children, Lord, and the little ones so fat and well fed; remember me, good Lord, and take the rheumatis away, ef it's your good will." She took up her needle with renewed courage, and once more began to perform those curious movements of wrist and hand which were necessary to produce the feather-stitching.
If I were younger now, I must have my sleep; but at sixty-eight you, so to speak, slacks down your fire, and werry little keeps it goin'." As Grannie thought these last vigorous and contented thoughts, she pulled the lamp nearer, seized her needle and thread, and commenced her feather-stitching.
This feather-stitching alone gave her a sort of monopoly, and she was too good a woman of business not to avail herself of it. It was the feather-stitching which had mostly tried her poor hand and arm, and brought on the horrid pain which the doctor had called writers' cramp. "Some doctors are out-and-out fools," murmured the old woman to herself.
A clump of palms and then another, a mimosa tree scenting the air from its diminutive yellow lanterns, and then great stretches of land, some light with the grain silvered by the waning moon, some dark from the plough's drastic hand, undivided by hedge or wall, yet as evenly marked out as a chess-board, reminding Jill of a very great patchwork quilt held together by some invisible feather-stitching.
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