Article profiling the needlework of Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., whose embroidery won the award for best piece at the Vernay Galleries exhibition in New York. It discusses her petit point and gros point panels, including a sampler of animals hunted on her husband's expeditions, a market scene, a threefold monkey screen, and a miniature bird table screen that won a 1934 gold star award. The author comments on her mixing of stitches, her modern designs, and practical problems such as matching imported wool colors. Two plates illustrate the sampler and the table screen.

Article by Georgiana Brown Harbeson on four American women artists who work in crewel embroidery or "needlepainting" as a form of modern art: Marguerite Zorach, Marcia Stebbins, Mrs. Arthur Crisp (Mary Ellen Crisp) and the author. It compares their styles, stitch choices, backgrounds and compositions, and argues for crewel work over canvas work as a medium for individual design. Illustrated with plates of Stebbins's boating panel and Crisp's "Diana" panel, plus a plate of the seven most-used stitches (Cretan, feather, buttonhole, chain, fly, satin).

A short report on the 1935 "Needlework of Today" exhibition at the Vernay Galleries in New York, a benefit show with more than seven hundred entries. It names the prize winners and describes the leading pieces, including a needlepoint chair, a crewel wall hanging of biblical scenes, a crewel Nativity picture, a modernized sampler panel and a crewel bench cover. Five plates of prizewinning embroideries are included.