This is a list of all the questions and their associated study carrel identifiers. One can learn a lot of the "aboutness" of a text simply by reading the questions.
| identifier | question |
|---|---|
| 26120 | Is it too much to believe that some of these charming faces may have been from her hands? |
| 26120 | We know that she painted furniture and china, therefore why not the faces of the needlework pictures so nearly akin to her own work? |
| 28269 | A beautiful material, if you are to better it( and if not why work upon it at all? |
| 28269 | And is she persuaded that her artless spray of flowers, or the ironed- off pattern she has bought, is all that art could be? |
| 28269 | And what, then, about originality? |
| 28269 | But suppose it is puckered? |
| 28269 | But why apply the term"satin- stitch"exclusively to parallel lines of stitches all of a length? |
| 28269 | How else suit the design to the stitch, the stitch to the design? |
| 28269 | How should she know? |
| 28269 | Is anyone nowadays modest enough to do work such as the couching in outline in Illustration 90? |
| 28269 | Is that to be a thing altogether of the past now that we have Art Needlework? |
| 28269 | ONE STITCH OR MANY? |
| 28269 | ONE STITCH, OR MANY? |
| 28269 | Or has she thought? |
| 28269 | The embroiderer of the 13th century was not afraid of that( aimed at it, perhaps? |
| 28269 | The question almost occurs: with what can one not embroider? |
| 28269 | What though she be a painter too? |
| 28269 | Why not drop titles, and call stitches by the plainest and least mistakable names? |
| 44766 | Do you know that many of our English great- grandmothers had very straight backs? |
| 44766 | Do you see how we are working? |
| 44766 | Have you ever heard the story of the little dirty boy of the slums who was given a new white tie by his teacher? |
| 44766 | Have you ever seen a lace spread or centre piece with flowers embroidered on it? |
| 44766 | Have you noticed how pretty ladies look when sewing? |
| 44766 | Have you noticed the flat gay decorations above the moulding in some houses? |
| 44766 | How many of you have not seen on an Indian woman queer shapes cut out of leather and ornamented with beads used for a border on her skirt? |
| 44766 | Matching the stripes] Have you ever noticed how the slit or placket of a petticoat or side opening of drawers is finished? |
| 44766 | Mother may not be around to help you when the accident happens, and would you not feel proud to sew it on for yourself? |
| 44766 | Nearly every little English girl knows how to smock without buying a pattern and why should not you? |
| 44766 | Shadow work, is not that a funny name for embroidery? |
| 44766 | Shall we make a cover for Sally Ann''s bed or a dust- cloth for mother? |
| 44766 | The Right Way to Darn] Have you ever belonged to a sewing club? |
| 44766 | The first thing to consider is, are you going to have a bedstead or a couch in your room? |
| 44766 | The first thing to decide is, how are we going to face the hat? |
| 44766 | The tape finished] Do you know that very few people sew on hooks and eyes properly? |
| 44766 | Turkish stitch] Have you ever noticed how many pieces of Turkish embroidery are worked on coarse unbleached muslin or tan linen? |
| 44766 | VI A LESSON IN STENCILLING What is stencilling? |
| 44766 | What is the selvage? |
| 44766 | What were they to wear? |
| 44766 | Would you not feel happier if you made the pattern and then cut the skirt yourself? |
| 44766 | Would you not like to have a sewing apron that you can use as a bag when you are not wearing it? |
| 44766 | Yet, what is the use of taking time to embroider one if you do not intend to make it up? |
| 44766 | You have doubtless seen the dyed whole skin used on a library table, but have you ever seen leather appliqué? |
| 44766 | You would not hang lithograph posters in your bedroom so why feel that it is all right to buy a lithograph pillow? |
| 31714 | In what state is your conscience? |
| 31714 | Where are the proud and lofty dames, Their jewell''d crowns, their gay attire, Their odours sweet? 31714 ''How knowest thou that?'' 31714 ''Is it not a work which the most cunning artists would wonder at?'' 31714 ''What be they, tell me?'' 31714 ''What promise was that?'' 31714 ''What way be they ryden?'' 31714 ''What{ Frenchmen} be they; canst thou tell me?'' 31714 And as''twas then an exercise of praise, So what deserves more honour in these dayes, Than this? 31714 And if it be necessary to woman with her charms, is it not tenfold necessary to those who-- Heaven help them!--have few charms whereof to boast? 31714 And that building seen on the opposite side of the river? 31714 And there were somme that said, How is hit? 31714 And what was it? 31714 And, after all, who is this all- powerful genius? 31714 Are those light transgressions, my son? |
| 31714 | Besides, why should any brag of what''s but borrowed? |
| 31714 | But what is passing in that detached portion of the camp? |
| 31714 | Come on, come on thy lagging way; Ye have made a fair daies worke, have you not? |
| 31714 | Could sympathy be more poetically expressed? |
| 31714 | Did not the Sun, through heaven''s wide azure roll''d, For three long years the royal fraud behold? |
| 31714 | Did she alight from the skies, while rejoicing stars sang Pæans at her birth? |
| 31714 | Didst carry out dust in thy lap? |
| 31714 | Do not our readers recollect Cowper''s thanksgiving"on finding the heel of a shoe?" |
| 31714 | Indeed, what would the"Field of the Cloth of Gold"have been without the skill of the needlewoman? |
| 31714 | So small an instrument? |
| 31714 | Surely her lot was hard; and well might she weepingly exclaim,"Where is now my hope?" |
| 31714 | Tell me, how shall my breches be sewid? |
| 31714 | The Esquire said him, nay,''For a silken string why should you fling, perchance, your life away?'' |
| 31714 | Was she born of the Sunbeams while a glittering Rainbow cast a halo of glory around her? |
| 31714 | What devil had you els to do? |
| 31714 | What is her appearance? |
| 31714 | When do we hear, in the present times, of Church and State interfering to regulate the patterns of their bonnets? |
| 31714 | Whence does she arise? |
| 31714 | Where are the love- enkindled flames, The bursts of passionate desire Laid at their feet? |
| 31714 | Where ha you ben fidging abroad, since you your neele lost?" |
| 31714 | Where is the dance that shook the floors, And all the gay and laughing train, And all they wore? |
| 31714 | Would his sister, would Dinah execute the work? |
| 31714 | _ Boswell._--"Pray, Sir, did you ever play on any musical instrument?" |
| 31714 | _ Hodge._"And is not then my breches sewed up, to- morrow that I shuld wear?" |
| 31714 | _ Hodge._"Her neele?" |
| 31714 | _ Hodge._"How a murrain came this chaunce( say Tib) unto her dame?" |
| 31714 | _ Hodge._"I say, Tib, if thou be Tib, as I trow sure thou be, What devil make ado is this between our dame and thee?" |
| 31714 | _ Hodge._"Knowest not what Tom tailor''s man sits broching thro''a clout? |
| 31714 | _ Hodge._"Might ha kept it when ye had it; but fools will be fools still: Lose that is fast in your hands? |
| 31714 | _ Hodge._"My conscience, Tib, my Gammer has never lost her neele?" |
| 31714 | _ Hodge._"What is the matter, say on, Tib, whereat she taketh so on?" |
| 31714 | _ Hodge._"Whereto served your hands and eyes, but your neele keep? |
| 31714 | _ Hodge._"Your neele lost? |
| 31714 | how is it possible for me to furnish such a number? |
| 31714 | shall I go thus to- morrow?" |
| 31714 | shall not this lady this day be pynned ne wel besene in a Myrroure? |
| 31714 | she replied,''can I feel a regret of any kind while I share your misfortunes?''" |
| 31714 | to whom should he intrust the task? |
| 31714 | what is that in your hand?'' |
| 31714 | who sojourn in yonder tents which attract more general attention than all the others, and in which all ages and degrees seem interested? |