The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-12-14
A Word About Christmas Gifts.
PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS FOR THE MANUFAC
TURE OF PRETTY AND USEFUL
PRESENTS.

PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS FOR THE MANUFAC-
TURE OF PRETTY AND USEFUL
PRESENTS.
What to do for Christmas, is the
problem that will soon be filling the
minds of women, and this problem will
require speedy solution if one wishes to
enjoy to the utmost the holiday season.
There is nothing more tiresome than to
be obliged at the last minute to rush
around and buy ones gifts, spending
more than one can well afford, when by
the exercise of little forethought,
money and strength can be saved.
Begin in time; plan your work; look
over your materials in hand; buy judi
ciously, and then go to work and
make-bags, for they never come
amiss. No matter how many one has,
anew one is always acceptable.
One pretty bag, suitable present
for child or its mother, is to be used
for hendkerchiefs and is made as fol-
lows: Cut two round pieces of paste
board about seven inches in diameter
and cut waddiug the exact size, using
Two layers for the inside of the bag.
Upon the wadding sprinkle sachet
powder. Then lay the disks of wad-
ding upon one of the pieces of paste
board and hold them in place by COW
ering the circle with cheese cloth
Cover the other circle with pale pink
satin, of which the bag is made. This
pink satin is very delicate-looking
when the white roses (procured at a
pilliner's) encircle it.
The strip Gust long enough to go
around the circle) is turned over at the
top to form hem, at the lower edge of
which a casing should be made by stitch
ing the hem around twice on the ma
chihe, using pale pink sewing silk. In
the casing put two white silk cords to
draw up the bag. Then sew the strip
to the lower pasteboard used for the
bottom and afterward insert the scented
circle, catching it in place with invis-
ible stitches. Turning it right side out
again, catch the roses all around the
base of the bag, and the bag is done. |
don't think any of my readers have a
lady friend who would not be pleased to
receive one of these dainty handkerchief
bags.
Cut a round piece of wood six inches
in diameter and cover one side with a
piece of coarse linen, in the center of
which embroider a monogram or initial
in satin stitch, with yellow silk; the
back of the board is neatly covered with
the same as other material. Around
one-half of the board, forming a semi
circle, are a number of small brass
screw hooks about an inch apart, from
which hang small bags, each four by
five inches and prettily worked in odd
letters with yellow silk, white thread,
linen thread, colored thread, silk twist,
pearl buttons, hooks and eyes or any.
thing you desire. In each bag put a
drawing cord of six. Hang the board
by large brass ring, hidden under a
huge bow of yellow ribbon at the top.
These bags are very convenient, and
may be made of almost any material.
For fanbag purchase one yard and
half of No 8 ribbon. Cut this in
two and join lengthwise by double
row of small brass rings covered with
embroidery silk the color of the ribbon.
A single row of these rings borders
each of the inner edges to within two
inches of the ends of the ribbon which
are to be fringed. This is doubled in
the center and the sides joined. Rib
bons are run through the rings at the
top from either side, leaving them long
enough to slip over the arm.
Serviceable and pretty little workbags
are made by using for foundation one
of the small oblong baskets-about four
by six inches-to be found at almost
any shop where Japanese goods are
kept. For the upper part of the bag
procure two yards of dark yellow ribbon,
No. 8, and ten yards of the same color
few shades lighter. Then cut these
in twelve strips of equal length and
join all together. After they are all
joined hem two and one-half inches
deep is turned and finished with two
rows of stitching one inch apart. The
other edge is finished with a very mar
row hem and fastened to the basket
with invisible stitches. Ribbons run
through the casing finish the bag.
Another pretty bag is made of two
pieces of channels, each five by six
inches, which are printed around the
edges with clover blossoms and leaves
The designs on the two pieces should bt
similar, but not exactly the same. A
piece of india or china silk, matching
the green of the clover leaf, four inches
wide and one yard long, is gathered anC
connects the two pieces of chamoil
along the sides and across the bottom
as puff. A straight piece of silk 81,
inches deep and the width of the bag is
sewed to the bag. A hem two inches
deep is turned with two rows of stitch
ing for the ribbons which are green
matching the silk.