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Show l-S,J' S 1BACK-STITCHE0 DRAWING ( y" HEM- would fall; so she took a handful hand-ful of coins and tossed them onto the linen. There was a 50-cent piece; a quarter; some dimes, nickels and pennies. After several sev-eral tosses she drew around each coin where it fell. Still using three strands of the white cotton she took four stitches across the marked circle and then brought the needle out in the center, cen-ter, as shown here in step 2, ready to take a tiny stitch to bind the long stitches together. The crystals crys-tals were embroidered over the long stitches, the larger ones being be-ing more elaborate than the smaller small-er as illustrated here. The stitch used is shown in step 3. Ninety other embroidery stitches are pictured pic-tured in my Sewing Book No. 2. Also dozens of things you can make in your spare time to use or to sell. Order your copy today and be among the thousands of women who are finding this book useful. Enclose 25 cents and ask for Book 2. Address: Mrs. Spears, 210 S. Desplaines St., Chicago, 111. A LETTER comes telling the story of mats a clever girl designed for her dressing table. The problem was to make them to fit spaces of unusual size. Her room color scheme was blue and white and a design of white embroidered em-broidered snow crystals on cool blue linen was what she wanted. Here is the way she achieved a charming result. The linen was cut the desired size and narrow hems creased with a warm iron. The hems were then backstitched in white from the right side with three strands of six-strand mercerized embroidery embroid-ery cotton. She wanted the arrangement ar-rangement of the snow crystals to be helter-skelter just as they |