The Washington herald., 1911-12-10
Satin Hnndba g.

and / am sending you my idea.
l-3 yard Of yard-Wids satin. at 6c yard..... &c
l3 yard Of yard vide satin for lining At Rc I'd &c
2 balls Of knitting silk at loc per ball, for the
embroidery DC
skein Of gold thread. 5c
yards Of cord, at SC per ysrd.....'...'....'. DC
TOtal. VIZ
This amount makes two bags.
am making them Of black satin, lined
with yellow satin. The design l am
working in satin stitch and the heart
Of the flower is made either OF Jet beads
or gold French knots, and the leaves
are only worked around the edge and the
mid rib is of Jet beads or gold French
knots.
They can be made many colors TO
match your friends suit. and use gold
thread or colored beads to harmonic.
Across the top, before you put the lin
ing In. put a piece OF featherbone to
hold the bag out straight
When you have the lining in. button
hole the lining and the flap together
and fasten the flap down with either
hook and eye or a fancy button.
At each corner, when the bag is COM
pleted. put two rings and through them
run two yards Of cord and knot at each
end.
II you are going TO use dark satin.
you can get white carbon paper at any
art store to transfer the pattern.
Editors note: The writer Of this de-
scripuOn of the beautiful satin bag, il
lustrated failed to send me her name
and address
VIII she kindly do so at once?
Here are some of the inexpensive but
none the less attractive and desirable
homemade Christmas gifts entered in
the contest by readers OF The Herald's
Page for Every Woman:
Breakfast Cap.
sroOs II white silAatine lic
yards Of baby ribbon G.
yards Of IOc
Soc
Crochet a mat eighteen inches in dia-
meter. Make a pretty edge around It.
Run the elastic just above the edge.
Make rosettes OF the ribbon and place
one on each side near the edge. You
then have pretty and useful and GER
tainly a very cheap Christmas present.
II YOU DO not crochet. sweet caps are
made of dotted Swiss.
ELIZABETH CUsTARD.
LEG Thiry-hfth street northwest.
Hand-paInted Christmas Cards.
The first requlsite-a few plain engrav-
ing cards.
- cards &c
- Transparent envelopes SC
ROx BradIeys water COOrS loc
Csmel's hair brush. No. l5c
Sheet transparent paper &c
Total sc
One large card. cut lengthwise. makes
two oblong cards three well sized cards
are made by cutting the large card
crosswise.
Ct LI.--- ,.l ,.,,-L o., su
dinner party, would be about IL cents.
Select design from some holiday cata-
logue q am using DennIson's). cut a
square Of the transparent paper and place
over this design. Use a lead pencil to
trace the outline. Turn the pattern over
and trace on the other side. This last
tracing is the one put next to the plain
card, cut suitably for this particular pat
tern, the upper left hand corner Of the
card is used.
Run the back of an ordinary case knife
firmly over every part of pattern: this
leaves a perfect duplicate in black out
line of the little holly wreath, pine cone,
poinsettia. or Santa Claus, according to
the design selected.
Painting Simplest Part.
The painting is the simplest part Read
carefully the directions found in the wa
ter color box. Do not mix the colors
is the main thing to remember. In paint
ing the poinsettia, go over the flowers
IN pink, when that dries, go over I'm red
this gives the natural hue. To make the
leaf heavily shaded on one = le. go over
a few times with green OF the same
color.
4 number of these hand-painted cards
are soon finished and are proper gifts
10 any one. ! gave set of place cards
for Thanksgiving dinner. pumpkins
painted for the gentlemen and red apples
tor the ladies. For a friend who enter
tains, a dozen place cards would be quite
the thing-the many distant friends to be
remembered, a single large card. A few
small size. sent early for address cards,
are aAso appropriate. HELEN BAILEY
Pierce Mill road.
Bureau Sacheta.