The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-12-09
FOR THE HOLIDAYS.
Inexpensive Christmas and New Year Pre-,
ents.
RED RIDINGHOOD.

RED RIDINGHOOD.
small bottle with cork; on that fit u
small doll head. Dress in red skirt and
large cape and hood pink with scis-
sors all around. Fill the bottle with per-
fumery.
CRETONNE WORK.
Cut out figures from any pretty pattern
| OF cretonne and transfer TO cloth or satin
Put thin sheets of wadding beneath to raise
| the figure; sew neatly or button hole stitch
around the edges. Many paste these ere
| tonne figures on satin and the edges then
need no working. The skirts of old cloth
coats thus ornamented form very pretty
| foOtstOOl covers, sofa pillows, etc.
DECALCOMANIE TIDY.
Transfer TO squares Of silk, satin or velvet
| OF any two contrasting colors, dccalcomanie
| pictures of flowers, birds, etc, etc. Join
these squares with Languedoc lace insertion
| and put border of the same kind of lace
around the edge An easy way tn transfer
the picture is to tack the squares of mate
| rial to u lap-board, then lay the picture in
| the center, stretch over it damp cloth and
iron quickly with moderately hot iron.
Remove the cloth and place over the pic
| ture piece of clean white unruled paper
and iron again. This removes the thin rice
paper, leaving the picture transferred to the
satin like hand painting. Sofa pillow
shams, table covers, and baby quilts may
| be made in this why. They may be lined
with an suitable material.
AN OLD LADY.
To make an old lady: Take some white
| sheet wadding, roll up piece 10 make the
| body, also two smaller rolls for arms, these
attach to the body; then take another piece
and sew it up for skirt work around tho
bottom in butt0n-h hole stitch with zephyr,
and gather the top and fasten Ia the body.
Make another skirt for the dress, then cut
out q circular piece for a cloak, work this
| round same rs the dress; also make II hood
| with cape, worked like the rest, make
small mutf and put the hands in it. Two
beads will serve for eyes and u thread for
the mouth. These look very pretty on
Christmas trees, are inexpensive and will
please the little folks.
CORAL MATS.
Those who are acquainted with crochet
ing can form the most beautiful mats which
appear like circles of twisted coral sprays
around the center of the mat. The center
consists of u circle of ten chain stitches,
then around the edge of this twenty five
long stitches" are crochcted, that IN the
zephyr is passed around the needle or hook
once, and between each of these longstiich-
On il made one chain stitch This forms
the first row of the central part.
Second row in the same stitch, hut every
third stitch il double ;thatis, two long stitches
in one space, this double stitch being adj
ded to enla &c the circle.
Third row same stitch, but tho zepher is
passed around the needle twice, and every
other stitch il double.
Fourth row commences the full border,
thus: In each space are three stitches and
the third is passed around the needle three
times, making very long stitch.
Fifth row is simplya chain, ten chain
stitches in each space, forming scalloped
border.
The full curleo appearance given to the
border by the fullness is the peculiar beauty
of this mat. To be made of bright scarlet
zephyr. A pair of these mats are exceed
ingly pretty for small statuary.