The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1916-01-20
TELL HOW THEY SEWEO

TELL HOW THEY SEWEO
Participants of the Boys and Girls
|Indus,rial Contest recently conducted
in Bookings county have written
essays on How | Did My Sewing" and
the prize winners are published below:
First Prize
Learned my sewing from my mother
and teacher. ! was eleven years old
when / started to sew. OF course |
had sewed many doll clothes when |
was a little girl. When | was eleven
years old | made a scarf for my little
bureau. | embroidered an apple tree
with blossoms and a robin sitting on
one of its branches. | sewed the r bin
sons in solid. | hemmed the edge,
featerstitched around it.
The next thing | sewed was a fancy
apron when | was twelve years old.
1t was made of lawn embroidered in
shadow design and lace trimmed. |
SEN the fancy apron down to the
Boys and Girls Club" and received
third prize on it.
The sewing | made this year for the
club is all hand made. | went to
Brookings to pick out the things |
wanted for my sewing. | rode down
thorn il, a h1nnu onH nf onurcn thaf
didn't 20 as fast as an automobile, but
| arrived at Brookings and started to
pick out what | wanted. | could not
find anything | wanted for a work bag
in the first store | was in, so | went
into another store. There | picked out
a yard of wide ribbon, having three
stripes of red and three of white and
then | bought wv yards of red ribbon
a fourth of an inch wide to draw the
bag together with. | cut the yard of
wide ribbon in four pieces and sewed
them together using backstitch and /
hemmed it at the top using the cast
over stitch; about a fourth of al inch
above that | sewed a seam of little
running stitches to keep the ribbon in
place. l made a bottom for the bag Of
round stiff paper and covered it with
some red cloth and sewed it to the
bag. Then | strung the small red rib
bon through the top and it was done.
Cost of the bagwide ribbon, II cents:
narrow ribbon, 10 cents; total, q
cents.
next began to look for something
stamped on buck linen and some white
embroidery floss. | embroidered the
scallops on each end and sewed cross
stitch on one end and on the other end
| embroidered my initial.
Cot of towel-linen, 25 cents; floss,
5 cents; total, 80 cents.
Next l made a fancy apron of white
lawn. | hemmed around it with little
stitches and put lace around it. Then
l embroidered it in shadow design.
Cost of apron-lawn, 6 cents; lace,
6 cents; floss, 5 cents; total, II cents.
| next picked out ~ yards of good
linen crash for a shoe bag and some
red bias braid. | made the bag with
six pockets. | sewed the red braid
around the bag and down between and
on top of each pocket. | used back
stitches and little we and over
stitches to sew the bag. | crocheted
around three rings with red floss and
sewed them to the top of the bag.
Cost of bag-crash, SO cents; braid,
5 cents; thread, 5 cents: floss, 2 cents;
total, GA cents.
l bought three yards of navy blue
cambria for my work apron. l sewed
it in the cover-all type without sleeves,
using French seams.
Cost of apron-cloth, 81 cents; total,
81 cents.
1 sewed these things at recess and
noon in school. Marie Mortensen.
Third Prize
/ learned now 10 sew from my
: mother and my teacher. First l sewed
my pillow. l cross-stitched and out
lined it. 1t cost IS cents for all.
) Next l sewed a fancy apron. First
sewed the flower on it, then l basted it
! | hemmed it, then l put the lace on
: Then l put the ribbon on it. 1t cosi
!, IL cents for all.
: Next l made a bag. First l sewed
: the sides and bottom together. back
st tched 1t. Next l sewed the eyelets
: to pull the ribbon through. padded
1t first and then I sewed over 1t. Then
I have some scallops on my bag.
: padded them first and then sewed over
, them. / sewed 1t all myself. My