1. Cut a piece of cardboard 1 inch long and ½ inch wide.
2. Over this, wind a strand of yarn 10 times.
3. Thread a long-eyed zephyr needle with yarn. Slip it under the yarn on the cardboard and tie it together at the top.
4. Clip the yarn apart at the other edge of the card.
Hold the clipped ends between the thumb and fingers of the left hand, and tie the tassel with a piece of yarn, to look like picture No. 3.
Thread the ends of the tie-string into a long-eyed needle. Pull the ends down through the middle of the tassel and cut them off even with the bottom.
Thread a zephyr needle with both ends of yarn at top of tassel and pull needle through one end of the runner.
Fasten the ends by pulling needle through tassel from the top. Cut off ends even with tassel fringe. (See picture No. 4.)
Lay doll’s shoe on a piece of light-weight cardboard and mark it with a pencil; cut it out. Or trace the outline below, and use it as a pattern.
Thread zephyr needle with yarn, and sew slipper to sole.
When the Yarn Baby had finished giving the long directions for the slippers, Crow Shay, who had been very quiet, could not keep still another second.
“Whew! Yarn Baby!” he broke in. “Whew! How do you know so much? You certainly are a woolly-headed know-it-all!”
At first the Yarn Baby did not know what to say to this impudent speech. Then her hair stood up stiff and straight.
“If I’m—if I’m a woolly-head,” she cried, “you’re an old bone-head! So you are! So there!”
Crow Shay grew pale, stood up on end and started for the Yarn Baby, when Wooley Ball just rolled in his way and Crow Shay pitched over her, head first.
“Mind your manners, Crow Shay! Mind your manners!” said Wooley Ball calmly.
All the Knitting People laughed merrily at Crow Shay’s silly caper, except poor Crow Shay, who looked a little ashamed of himself.
MARY FRANCES, who wanted to laugh, too, pretended not to notice, and picked up a ball of pink yarn.
“If only I had Fairly Flew’s magic needle!” she said, “I could get the slippers finished very soon for my poor baby’s cold feet.”
“Wait a moment! Wait a moment!” exclaimed the little fellow who was himself again. “Don’t you want to call the fairy teacher?”
“If I only knew how to, I certainly should call her, Crow Shay,” replied Mary Frances. “You help me a good deal, but——”