Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-11-26
MAKING USEFUL BAGS.
A New One for the Laundry and Others
for Work Table.
Written for The Star.

Written for The Star.
To the girl who has not the knack for
fancy work, but who still enjoys plain sew
Ing the making of bags is always a pleas
ant task. Especially "a this season of the
year when friends are all busy with gift
making, useful bags not only afford means
of being part of the sewing circle, but
they later prove invaluable as simple but
most acceptable presents.
Laundry bags are the most easily made
and with new divisions and pockets they
have become more than ever an indispen-
sable adjunct to every bedroom closet A
bachelors laundry bag of washable denim
has the usual deep bag suspended on a
fiat cross bar and having an opening on
one side for inserting soiled clothes Below
this is a pocket attached across the bottom
of the bag. This opens at the top and has
a flap of denim buttoning down on it. The
object of the extra pocket is to keep collars
and cuffs separate from other soiled linen.
For the same purpose another bag shows
series of pockets tackled on across the
lower edge, These are effected by a
single length of denim bound with
tape and stitched to the bag across two
widths of the strip. thus leaving three good
sized pockets, A bag of this sort is gath
Grad around wooden hoops instead of on
fiat sticks, and the part of the hoop left
uncovered is concealed beneath a stirring
of plain cloth to match the figure In the
denim.
Another extremely useful bag, especially
where closet room is limited, is a dress bag
of Bingham. 1t is made the length of a
dress skirt and gathered at the top into the
usual fiat strip of wood "A disappointed
nap extends down from the shirring over
the stick and IS held securely In place by
many small buttons and buttonholes. This
nap is bound with tape and tape is attached
at either end of the stick for suspend
Ing the bag from a hook
small bag which every girl needs at
the side of her bureau is for soiled hand
kerehlefs and neckwear. and is kept clean
most readily when built of toweing. Both
plain buck -a-buck with hernstitched ends
and damask toweling with colored borders
and frfnged ends are employed to make this
practical little bag. One medium-sized
towel serves to make four, the fancy ends
made by joining the raw edges of the towel
with double or French seams. ribbon run
through the top is used for hanging the
bag up and in simple written letters across
tho front. an outline stitch in silk. the same
color as the ribbon, marks the words
*soiled linen"
For travelling purposes the corset bag
is a useful article and a novel gift. The
prettiest of these are built of four-inch
ribbon fellcd together at the sides with
overland stitches wide heading Is left
at the top and just below this the bag
is drawn UP in the usual manner by a
narrow-widrh ribbon. Delicate ribbon work
sometimes outlines the name of the bag,
and one lovely example showed hand
painted primroses on a pink-satin back
ground.
Fancy work bags made OF silk, ribbon.
or even Of denim, are finished at the top
this year In petal-shaped headings rather
than in the straight heading so long used.
That U.s. the outside material and the lining
are cut in narrow divisions above the draw
strings, and each 10 shaped ieaf-iike 70