Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-04-06
The Things
We Want

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| The worn hose of the grown-up girl
or woman may be utilized in making
comfortable little drawers for the
very small child. Cut off the worn feet
| of the stockings, slit down the upper
! part of the legs from the hem or rib
bling for eight or more inches, sew
| these slit edges together after the
| fashion of any ordinarily made draw
| ers, but do not close entirely where
the slit places meet the unslit part of
| the stockings, instead, insert here a
| square of the same material or similar
| material; this will give room and pre-
vent the tearing out of the small draw
ers. A piece of the knit top of small
| stocking or the wrist of old underwear
may be used to form snug ankle for
| the child. These little drawers can
be worn over diaper or over other I'M
derwear, and will save the latter
! great deal and will give pretty fair
| service. A rubber band may be run
in the waist part by making casing
for the same.
| Some long silk gloves very much
the worse for wear were discovered in
looking over some old things, and at
once the daughter Of the house said
Lets make some little silk stockings
for baby out of these" and sure
enough the long wrists cut to very
| good advantage for the tiny stockings.
! The foot was shaped and sole put in.
| overhanding the seams in fine stitch
and leaving them fiat so they would
not hurt the softest little foot.
Pretty good underwear may be made
for the tiny ones by using the lower
| parts of the old union suits. The wear
| comes hardest in the center of such
! suits, and these often become ragged,
when the lower and upper parts are
| fairly good The legs of the old under
wear from the knees kown may be
| made into tiny drawers as were the
| stocking legs mentioned above. The
upper parts of the union suits may be
cut into small shirts, and finished neat
ly with soft bindings or crochet edges
will help keep the cold from the little
| one, anu GlSO COuSSlNS TIC oSluoi
money expenditure. The lower parts
of old knit shirts may be made into
comfortable little petticoats for little
children. They may have simple
crochet scallop put around the bottom
edges, or they may be neatly faced up
with something not too bulky. Or If
the material is not too heavy simple
feather stitching of heavy thread will
give neat appearance to these little
old-new garments.
Old shirts may be used in various
ways. There is always the small pet
ticoat which can be made from the
lower parts. But there are other
things. One girl took fine flannel
shirt of her fathers, ripped it up, and
cut shirt waist from it, reversing the
shirt, cutting the waist from the lower
parts and getting the sleeves out OF
the upper parts of the old sleeves and
the best parts of the upper part of
the shirt itself Over the piecing she
put plain band of a contrasting color,
for instance on a blue shirt red band
is stitched, and vice versa, or even a
bias band of the same material. There
had been necktie to the shirt men.
toned and this was washed, pressed
and turned, and the result was neat
school or home waist at almost no
cost.
Sometimes good quality percale or
Madras shirt may be utilized the same
way, after it is Pretty we'll worn in its
original purpose. Quite smart little
apron can be made out of the lower
part of a worn cotton shirt, if it is of
pretty material. The tiny aprons
now used admit of variety of ways of
making One very useful little apron
was cut the width of the shirt TAIL and
was shaped up little towards the top.
The second piece of shirt tail was used
over this, and the two lower edges
were stitched together, the upper part
of the outside piece was shaped and
stitched through the center of the front
into two large pockets. This made the
apron really a good deal like clothes
pin bag, but it Is an extremely useful
little garment as it is worn when
mending, or sewing, or doing any of
the various things when a number Of
utensils and pieces are needed handy.
The pockets offer place for all these
needs, and save the time of hunting
around or of picking up the scissors,
thread, etc. In fact, an apron made
this way would answer very we'll for
darning bag. The stockings could
be slipped into the pockets and the
darning materials could be kept there
so that when ready to do the weekly
darning there would be no looking
around for things. Merely tie the
apron on and the needful things are at
hand.