The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1912-12-13

Cretonnes are so attractive that they
have inspired much designing of ar
ticles for personal use and house dec
GRAFTON. Recently linen crash and
lowered cretonnes have become more
popular than any other fabrics for
tasteful and inexpensive fittings and
furnishing. Certain patterns have
been featured for living rooms and
porches, but 1t is In bedroom furnish
ings that they take precedence OF ev-
erything else. They are bright and
dainty and better still. they are wash
able. Crashes are embroidered in
fast color embroidery silks or deco
rated with cut figures of cretonne ap-
piled and button-nole stitched down.
There Is a long list of attractive
things which are made of these dura-
BILE fabrics. Among them the dressing
case sets. which cannot fail to please,
are among the least costly and most
effective of Christmas gifts. They are
acceptable to either men or women
friends
The lowered cretonnes are used for
covering boxes made to hold handker-
chiefs. gloves. neckwear, cravats and
wells, and the large boxes for hats
and shirtwaists. They are fine for
laundry bags, shoe and slipper bags,
pin cushions and pin trays. tea trays
and tea cosies. Dresser scarfs are
made of a plain fabric bordered with
cretonne. Picture frames are covered
with 1t and the cut-out figures are ap-
piled to candle shades. Cushions for
chairs help carry out the scheme for
cretonne decorations. Only few Of
these articles are pictured and they
cannot convey the brightness and
daintiness of the gayly Powered or en-
broidered originals, but will serve to
show how effectively the simplest ma
terials serve the purpose for making
charming gifts.
In the picture are three candle
shades, a fine tray and a frame for
photographs. They are made Of Gre
tonne or of linen. A set made up of
the tray and frame and one or two
candle shades all matching ought to
rejoice the heart of any one who ap-
preciates pretty dressing case. They
are all very easily made.
To make the pin tray a small oval
frame with glass and back is needed.
Plenty of these are to be found at
the ten cent stores framing pictures
which 1t is a decided satisfaction to
take out and destroy. After cleaning
the glass a stiff cardboard is to be cut
out (using the glass as a guide) into
backing for a cretonne covering
Paste the cretonne to this backing
smoothly or allow half inch around
the edge and fasten the cretonne with
stitches drawn across the back of the
cardboard Slip the covered form In
to the frame under the glass and re-
place the back. Paste piece OF plain
paper or felt over the bottom of the |
tray.
The photo frame is made of heavy |
cardboard 9k inches long and 5h |
inches high. The oval openings are a |
tri1e over inches high and inches |
broad The cretonne is cut allowing |
1 inch to turn over the edge all around
and Y inch about the oval openings.
1t must be slashed at the openings to
make it fit and is pasted or glued
down about the ovals first. The card
board is then mounted to four strips
of cardboard Gas heavy as corrugated
board which extend all rounc the
edge of the frame at the back. These
strips are glued to the frame. The
inch allowance in the material is
brought over the edge of the frame
and glued down. A narrow strip of
glass is laid against the oval open
ings at the back and fastened by
means of strips of paper pasted over 1t
and to the back of the frame. Finally
a backing of thin cardboard is pasted
to the frame across the top and
sides, leaving the bottom open for
slipping in the pictures. A small wire
ring is fastened in for hanger or an
easel support glued to the back by
means of cloth hinge.
The tallest of the three candles has
n shade made of stiff pink linen