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288 appliquéd on to the linen, the veins being worked in with black on a darker shade of the same color, as the calico, and the leaves and flowers connected by graceful lines of stem stitch. Such quilts, made in the time of Queen Anne, have been preserved to the present day.

A rather unique quilt was made by a friend of mine as a gift to her minister's baby. It was made of alternate blocks of white and colored calico, and on the white blocks, the letters of the alphabet, cut from red or blue calico were appliquéd.

The down from many different plants can be gathered through the summer, and used to stuff small bags neatly made, which, when a number are sewed together will furnish a very good imitation of a down quilt. The small white everlasting flower, sometimes called moonshine, furnishes quite a good amount of this vegetable down.