South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-08-18
NE " DEVICE FOR
SAVING SPACE
Umbrella Holder of Cretonne
Useful for DWeIIerS in Small
Apartments.

For the girl who is obliged TO keep
all of her belongings in her own room.
for the apartment house dweller. or
for the housewife, whose bugbear is
insufficient closet space, there is one
little friend in need not to be ignored
the hanging umbrella holder.
Select enough heavy material, pre-
ferably denim or cretonne, from which
to cut strip about fourteen inches
wide and a yard long and a second
strip fourteen inches wide, but only
| thirty inches long. After cutting 90
the proper size, bind the bottom four
teen-inch edges of the two pieces sep
arately with cOlored tape some color
that will harmonic or contrast well
with the material being used. Also
| bind the top of the thirty-inch piece
in the same fashion. There will ne
raw edges of tape at the ends, but
these will disappear later.
Now place the thirty-inch piece of
material upon the thirty siX-inch piece
both bottom tape bound ends together,
which will leave the six-inch extra
length of the back piece projecting at
the top. Run a good seam UP both
sides of the holder (the bottom is left
Open) on the machine. Hand sewing
is not strong enough for the purpose.
three umbrellas or parasols, ii is d.
k,yided into three compartments by two
rows of stitching double rows will
make il more secure), run at equal
distances. fastening the front piece to
the back the entire length of the hold
ell.
Narrower at Bottom.
However. if these three compart-
ments were allowed TO remain the
MD ut ln
top, the umbrellas would slide
through. AS it is, only the steel points
that are to project about three inches
or so through the bottom with no
openings-holes would soon be worn
in the holder), diagonal lines of ma
chine stitching must reach from the
main lines Of stitching dividing the
compartments TO the bottom of the
holder. slanting toward the centers of
the compartments and ending within
an inch Of each other. These will
make the compartments somewhat
funnel-shaped at the bottom. The
unstitched inch space between the two
rows of stitching in each compartment
forms the opening through which the
steel points are 10 be slipped.
Next stitch a double piece of the
material about one and one-halt
inches wide and fourteen inches long
across the back of the siX-inch pro-
jecting piece of the material at the
top, to reinforce it for the holes that
are 90 be put into it later, proceeding
TO bind with tape the raw edges OF the
seams and the siX-inch projecting end.
A colored material, cut in bias strips,
can be used to bind the holder instead
of tape, if preferred. Stitch the bind
ing or tape on by machine. This
means another row of stitching for the
seams, which, of course, makes them
doubly strong Cut three holes about
the size of a large pea in the project
ing six-inch top, through the piece
that was put across its back TO rein
force it, and huttonhole them with
coarse embroidery cotton or colored
string Drive three wire nails into the
inside of the closet door, slip the but
tonholed circles over them, and, be-
hold the holder is ready 10 entertain
three umbrellas or parasols, protect
them from dust and keep them abso-
lutel yout of ones way.