The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1885-01-16
Useful and Fancy Work.

A small table to stand in bay win.
dow can be stylishly covered in this
way Get square piece of gray or
drab shoe kid, an inch or two smaller
than the table top. Draw scallop on
the edge and an open scroll pattern,
something like those Used for bracket
saw designs, all over the square, but
tonhole the edge and chan-stitch the
inner pattern. Cut out the scallops
ard the kid between the chain stitched
lines. The top of the stand may be
covered with sateen or velve;een, and
the kid square tackled over it, Instead
of putting fringe around the edge, a
lambrequin may be made of narrow
panels of velveteen with tassel upon
the point Of each and kid leaf, rosette
or small, open-work square set upon
every paue. Such table demands n
high price, being something of nov
city, but little stand with pine top
and cbonized legs can be bought for
severty-five cents and covered at home
1t may be made to cost less, if, in
stead of kid, the embroidered square
is made of firm, new gray linen.
Very pretty dral" ries for cottage
windows can be made of plain pink or
blue cotton sateen with cross band of
lowered sateen near the top and bot
tom. White muslin or cheese.cloth
curtains are pretty for bed "ooms, with
lace edging on the front, or plain
hem with crossbands of plain sa,een.
An alcove or bay window can be cheap
y and artistically dressed by carrying
length of plain Turkey-red calico
over the top easement, festoouing it
slightly in two places, and allowing it
to hang to the floor on each side TO
the inside selvage of the calico attach
long breadth of cheese cloth, which
may be supported at the top by fla.
rod run through the hem. The effect
is something like the white lace curtains
with long side lambrequips of dark
silk, that were once fashionable in Euro.
pean houses.
A delicate-looking bedspread for
summer nse can be made of pink or
blue silesia or cambria, used as lining
for white mosquito lace-not the
square-meshed, but the finer kind which
resembles Brussels net. Any of the
pretty cotton lace edgings will make a
suitable border for such quilt, and a
flat bow of satin ribbon the color of
the lining on one or both outside cor
ners will be handsome addition. The
same kind of mosquito lace in rose col
or makes pretty quilt with an inter.
lining of white sheet wadding, sepa-
rated so that it adds very little to the
weight. The lace should be double,
with the cotton between, and it is tack
ed in squares with cross-stitch of pink
crochet cotton, and row of double
crochet, with an edge OF small scallops,
Is worked all around the quilt after
the raw edges are turned in and run
together
Eating aprons for children can be
made from the corners of old linen
sheets, which will often be in good
condition when the centers are entirely
worn out. Cut the linen in long,
straight piece, rather narrow, or it will
not set well over the shoulders, and
cut out a circular piece for the neck.
Work row of double feather-stitch
around the neck and al the sides.
Above the wide hem on the bottom,
work in black or red washing silk some
appropriate motto, like, Il must not
waste my food" II must not eat too
fast or "Bon Appetit' (good appe-
tite). The lettering can be drawn with
a pencil and worked in simple outline
stitch.
In making pillow-cases when the
linen is not the exact width, there is
often a long piece which is not always
Immediately servicable. If the strip is
seven or eight inches wide it is sdap
table for table use in the form of little
square fruit napkins. Fringe the
edges by ravelling an inch all around
and sew in strands of coarse red mark
ing cotton at intervals; turn one corner
over, and buttonhole it down with red
On the turned down piece work a tiny
figure, or an initial.
A pretty catch h-all can be made of
the coarse, wide hats that were sold
last summer for ten cents each, and
used by ladies for bathing hats. Put
a ruche or box-plailed ribbon or silk
around the edge inside, and another
just inside the crown. Nail to the wall
by one side of the brim, and turn the
other upon the crown and hatten il
down till it is like an oval basket. Sew
a bunch of roses or bow of ribbon
where the brim is turned down. If
not used for a catch-all, the crown can
be filled with ferns or leaves, and will
be pretty decoration in either case
Good Cheer