Worked on canvas, and single Berlin wool, six shades of pink and five shades of gray.

The pattern must be drawn on the canvas the size of the bag.  You then work the leaves in the shades of gray, * veined with dark cerise floss silk, two shades, one leaf with one shade and one with the other; and the stem also with the two shades of silk cerise.  The bottom of the fruit is worked in six shades of pink, three shades for one fruit and three shades for the other.  You arrange the colors so that the same shade of one must not touch the other.  The top of the fruit is worked in shades of gray the same color as the leaves.  The gray fruit - the shades are separated with five shads of light pink floss silk.  The whole of it is not shaded, as in general, but each piece worked in one color; for instance, if the leaf is drawn you must shade it in five different pieces one-half the leaf, and the other half the same.  The ground is a very dark claret, as pattern, when finished.  The bag is lined with very nice silk; the silk is left twelve inches above the bag, allowing for the hem when there is a ribbon run through to draw it up.  You then put a very dark claret silk cord quite round the bag, sewing the lining with the cord at the top of the bag, so as to keep the lining quite straight inside the bag.  Then you have the saem colored cord, very thick, for the handles, which is sewn between the lining and your embroidery.  Work the ground in open squares and the design in long stitches.