The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-26

- FORK bags are one of the prime A ' requisites before the beginning WV of the fall sewing season. They also make ever welcome gifts
 for the holiday season, and If you are little tired of the usual kind. why not make one of the sort am going to describes
 This bag, to be really useful, is more ample than the average sewing bag Cut the bottom from two pieces of heavy cardboard. making it twelve inches in diameter. Cover the top of each piece with one layer of cotton wadding, cut about quarter of an inch wider than the boards. Paste this on with photog- raphers' paste, letting the edge loose be- yond the. cardboard The covering, of whatever chosen material, should be an inch wider than the boardsthat is, a circle thirteen inches in circumference or if the material frays easily. thirteen and half inches Is better.
 Covering the bottom Is one of the most intricate parts of the bag, as if not smoothly done your bag will look poorly made. The simplest method Is to lay the board on the wrong side Of the ma teriar and draw a pencil line close tothe edge. If your goods has decided figure hold 1t to the light and adjust your boards so as to get the design straight. This done, you can draw second line an inch beyond the first, or. as the line need not be accurate, cut without marking.
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 Unless you wish to waste your material, take your boards with you in buying Fit I. l. -If for the top. This will need to be once and half the circumference or once and three-fourths if you like 1t full. For the twelNe inch bottom you will need piece fifteen inches deep and either sixty or seventy inches long. The circumference of the twelve inch boards is about forty inches
 As 1t is advisable to avoid seams in the top if possible. you may cut your top lengthwise of the goods if the design per mits. It may be we'll to remember this in selecting material. Thus you can easily get your bag out of two yards of thirty inch goods. The top may be made slight ly lower if you wish to use narrower goods, twelve inch top gives also ample slowing room. Having cut off the length for the bag. the two bottoms and the pockets may be easily cut from the other length. With fifteen inch top the pockets should be cut about seven inches deep. Cut across the goods. you must have material yard wide and will need a yard and five-eighths.
 All ths presumes your bag material is heavy enough not to be lined. Should you use lining allow enough for GOV erng one bottom and the bag proper. More of the lining material will be needed as the pockets are made from it. Re- member this utility bag must primarily be serviceable. so choose rich, dark col ors and fabrics that wdll not cut Many of the English, oh 'ntxes or light weight cretonnes. especially the new designs oi gay flowers on . black Background. make fascinating bags. Line with the best grade of mercerixed sateen in the pre- dominating tone of the flowers. Some of the heavier cretonnes need no lining
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 Where cost is no object, exceedingly handsome bags may be made of rich, dark brocades lined with satin or a firm china silk. The former. while scarcely so ef- fective. will not rough up with hard usage Light and serviceable bags may be madt from the figured crepe de chimes that ar< alike on both sides. Late in the seasor these can often be found greatly reduced For the drawstrfngs you will need foul yards and quarter of inch wide ribbon / Gut in two equal strips to run in oppo site directions through the casing. T, reduce cost one can make one of th hand woven cords from nnercerixed eh broidery cottons or discarded skeins o silk which most women own Colores linen tape is alSo pofsibls. though 1t Gee