The record-union., 1893-02-20
THREE THINGS
ANY Woman Can Make to Add to
Home Decoration.

THREE THINGS
ANY Woman Can Make to Add to
Home Decoration.
For pretty and unique basket get a
Sneet OF very heavy water-color paper or
brlslol board, such as is used for mats to
large crayon portraits; it NAV be white
or tinted, but we will use ivory white;
also yard OF pale green China silk,
Gozen YARDS OF silk cord the color of the
SILK, very sharp knife and punch.
Inc basket when done will be five
SIDED, about i've inches deeD, lined with
shlrred green silk, and from each side the
! paper Is cut out in the form of a clover
!eaI and stem, through which the green
lining shows. To make it, cut five pieces.
! each nVe inches deep and five and one
half inches across the upper end, sloped
carefully away on both sides until it
| measures four inches on the lower end.
| Have ready pattern of a three leaved
clover and stem; place this in the center
OF each piece, trace it about with lead
| pencil and cut 1t out. Punch holes one
| fourth of an inch from the edge and about
nall an inch apart on all four sides of
each piece. Form the basket by lacing
the pieces together on the sloped sides
| with the silk cord, and tie the ends of the
cord on the inside at the bottom, so that
| the lining will conceal them.
/ ~ SeNS btiS DOtbOLll, p1dC0 LI6 DdTU you
| nave laced together upon piece of Bris-
tol board, mark the outline of its lower
! edge and cut it out. Punch holes about
the edge to correspond with those in the
sides, and lace it in place. Cut from the
CHINA silk piece nine inches deep, and
long enough to go once and half around
| the inside of the basket. Shirr the top
edge on cord, leaving double piece to
stand up as rutfle. Lace cord around
| the top OF the basket through the holes
made for the purpose, and secure the lin
ing Ia place by tacking the shirring to
the cord by invisible stitches. To line
the bottom, cut piece Of thin cardboard
the shape OF the bottom, cushion it with
perfumed wadding and cover with China
SILK, securing 1t in place by cumming or
! Dastlng the edges to the wrong side: place
| this i'll the bottom OF the basket. let
ting 1t hold the lower edge OF the side
lining under it, and tack it firmly by in-
visible stitches.
The outside may be prettily decorated
by outlining the clover leaves with water
color gold paint. A further decoration
may be design Of white clover blossoms
and green leaves painted upon the pretty
ivory white paper with water colors.
| With much the same materials and of
different colors let us make a scraD or
waste-paper basket. 1t may be four
sided, made of very thick Bristol board of
a gray color and lined with scarlet cheese
| cloth, or silkaline of bright pattern.
Cut from the Bristol board four pieces.
each twelve inches deep, ten inches across
the upper end and eight across the lower
end.
| Mark exactly in the center of each side
a piece corresponding to it in shape, but
two inches smaller each way, and cut it
out. II 1t IS right, the pieces cut out will
measure eight by six by four inches. and
there will be left for the foundation Of the
| basket four pieces resembling slate
frames two inches wide, These are to
| have holes an inch apart, punched all
around the outer edges, and are to be
laced together with scarlet silk cord. a
! bottom eight inches square is to be ad-
ded and the lining put in place, as in the
work basket. Decorate the outside with
crescents, disks and stars, applied with
gold paint.
a case for photographs or for nice
stationery may be made of water-color
paper of less thickness than is required
for the baskets already described. Eight
! by ten inches will be a convenient size.
and to make it you will need a piece Of
water-color paper or Bristol board ten
! inches wide by twenty inches long. To
fold it into shape, mark a line across the
strip of papor eight and half inches
from the end, and cut just through the
surface with d sharp knife so that it will
fold without cracking or breaking. Make
a second mark, and cut it in the same
way nine inches from the first one, and
fold again. Round the corners of the
! three-inch piece that is left, ana your
| portfolio will resemble letter envelope.
! Mark upon the face below the flap. in
open-faced letters, the word portfolio or
! photographs, and cut them out to show
the lining. This will be a difficult piece
of work and one you might better not
undertake unless you have had experi-
ence. Instead you might cut away an
oval or diamond-shaped piece or a pat
tern resembling lattice-work
The lining may be cut the same shape
as the outside and put in PLAN. 1t should
be silk of good body. Bonnet silk will
do or a firm piece of double-faced surah.
| Punch holes all around the edge of the
portfolio and in the lining to correspond.
and lace with cord outside and lining
together after the manner of top sean1
or whip seam" in sewing.
you use white water-color paper. line
with pale-blue silk and decorate with a
design of blue corn-tiowers or torget-me-
nots; lavender-hued silk with wild vio-
let's for decoration would be equally
pretty.
If the lining falls away from the out
side, as 1t will be apt to do unless it is
silk of firm quality, it may be tied
about with cord at each fold, letting the
tie come on the outside. Finish each end
OF the cord with little taSsel formed by
tying knot in and raveling the cord for
an inch from the end.-Charlotte Whit
comb, in the Housekeeper.