The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-12-26

CHATELAINE FOR where such
SCISSORS things are sold.
AS I have made all these things myself,
I know exactly what am talking about,
for / am not blessed with much money,
great skill as a needlewoman or an
abundance of spare time.
shall first describe a darning bag
which | have just completed to send to
my dearest friend. In money this bag
cost me:
one yard of oretonne. .l216
Threc-quarters of a yard of narrow ribbon 3
One dozen small brass rings............-..-
Total lT11
1 used some bits of pasteboard besides
these materials and some bits of flannel.
but L had the flannel and got the paste
board out of discarded paper boxes. The
diagram will show how / cut the Gre
tonne, the pasteboard and the flannel.
Besides the pieces shown, 1 used for the
center of the bag strip of cretonne ] =
yards long and 0 inches wide Then /
covered the three pieces Of pasteboard
with cretonne. Then l used two of them
as the foundation of the main recepta-
Gle of the darning bag, shirring the long
strip Of cretonne and attaching it to the
covered pieces Of pasteboard as shown
in the cut. Then l made a smaller re-
ceptacle or pocket by stirring the 2 by
8 inch piece of cretonne to the outside
of one of the two pieces of pastebOard.
running through the little bag a piece
of elastic in order to draw the opening
shut. The third piece of pasteboard was
used, with the one on the side Of the
main bag opposite the pocket, to form
needIeboolz, as shown. The bits Of fan
mel We're used as leaves to the needle
book. I used three leaves, but Of course
you may use as many as you ike The
rings l fastened to the mouth of the
large bag running the ribbon through
them, in order to hang the whole from
a hook fastened in the door of closet.
If you wish to, you may fit up this
bag with shoe buttons, darning thread,
needless etc. at total cost of from ,
to so cents, according as you have more
or less money to spend and the bargain
sales IN your vicinity If you want to
use silk or satin in place of the cretonne
and embroider the bag, the bag may
cost as much as You like, Of course.
Another very effective and pretty gift.
which viii cost little more than the
bag, is a chatelaine for scissors. For this
you viii need 6 brass rings each an
inch in diameter, ! = yards Of inch wide
satin ribbon, four slzeins of twisted en-
broidery silk and the scissors. The cost
to me of each of the four 1 have made
lately was:
Kings.
Ribbon
S7lll
SCISSORS
Total. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
You may not want to buy such cheap
scissors, but l was very lucky in my
cheap ones. For 35 cents you can get
very good ones, with a fine temper, that
viii hold an edge indefinitely and long
after the ribbon has worn out. have
placed one of the four chatelaines 1
made in the guest chamber in my house,
where it IS an ornamental object, swing
ing from a little hook in the wall. Such
chatelaines are very pretty gifts and
are very convenient at those gatherings
of ladies where there is a little sewing,
a little innocent gossip and little tea
drinking. Sometimes the wearer viii
add a needlebook, a thi1ble case and
an emery bag to the chatelaine, and
then she IS we'll accustomed to grapple
with the work Of the sewing circle.
1t seems to me that any one might
master the method of making this pretty
thing from the cut. but here are de-