The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-12-29
DECORATIVE ART.

SLuMBER QUMT.-Take sixteen pieces
OF cream oatmeal cloth, each piece
eight inches square. and In the center
OF each work Greenway figures in in
grained blue crewels. Take the same
number of squares of blue oatmeal
cloth and work the figures with cream
colored crewels; join the blocks to-
gether and finish with border all
around Of one color, with corners of the
other; line with sheet-wadding, with an
outside lining of cream colored cheese
cleth. The wadding should be fastened
to the cheese cloth with bits of blue
worsted to keep it in place. A slumber
quilt of "crazy" design has in the CEN
ter of each block square of silk, with
the initials, or given name, of the donor
embroidered in silk
SOFA CUsHIoN.-Take piece OF old
gold Saline, cut it octagon shape and
have it about nine inches across, en-
broider in the center cluster of lilac
blossoms in white or shades of purple;
use embroidery silk and split, as when
twisted the flowers appear too heavy;
embroider few leaves in shaded olive.
Fasten the octagon onto piece of car
dinal satin or plush cut diamond-shape,
hiding the edges of the Saline with
gold and cardinal cord. Now take
square of old-gold satin trifie smaller
than the size you desire the cushion, and
In each corner embroider q spray of
hlacs corresponding with the center one.
Roses and buds, different variety in
each corner and center, make pretty
ornamentation. Also clusters of var
ious colors of wild flowers. IL you will
place piece of marble oil-cloth, which
you can purchase at any fancy store, I'M
der the design, you will work more
rapidly and the design will look heavier
when completed. 1t also prevents the
threads from drawing keeping the work
smooth and even. When the work is
finished lay on the diamond-shaped
piece In such manner that there will
be triangle of old-gold satin at each
corner; join the two pieces of goods to-
gether with herring bone or other fancy
stitches. Make cushion of any strong
goods by taking two squares and join
ing them together with n band of cloth
two inches wide; fill with feathers or
curled hair. Now take piece of far
mers satin the same size as the squares
and stitch it neatly down for the outside
lining At the top place the satin.
which should be exactly an inch smaller
than the under square. For the putting
cut bias strips of satin the desired
width, gather and sew one edge to the
top cover and the other end to the
under one, covering both edges with
old gold and cardinal silk cord, and
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loops of cord or fancy tassel.
TABLE SPREAD.-Take square Of
wine-colored felt, and in each corner
work in crewel stitch large cluster of
flowers, placing in the center of each n
small sunfower. The outline should
be worked in silk and the filling in
in crewel. If one has a design it can
be transferred by placing over it piece
of tracing paper and drawing the out
line with soft lead pencil, remove the
tracing paper and with piece of soft
white crayon mark the lines just made,
lay it with the crayon side on the felt,
pinning it firmly to keep it III place,
draw over the outline again with a
pencil, remove the paper and with a
fine camels hair brush and some
CnlneSe WillJe outline Une design again.
Do not begin to work until perfectly
dry. When the work is finished place
it on thick layer of flannel worked
side down, on it place dry cloth, then
a wet and lastly dry. Take a very hot
iron and go over the CLOTH barely touch
ing it. When the wet cloth becomes
dry the work is pressed enough. Finish
the edges with pinking iron, or cut in
very small points. Another handsome
cover is made of electric blue satin with
border cut from cretonne, covering
the entire design with filled-in en-
broidery, using the cretonne merely as
a guide to color. The figures can be
fastened with button-hole stitch, but
the former method is newer and much
more effective. Pink the edges or finish
with cretonne fringe, which is made by
folding in two strip of cretonne and
cutting one edge to within quarter of
An inch of the other into very narrow
strips. Sew on in herring bone stitch.
Brother Gardner on Patriotism.
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