Evening star., 1923-10-26
= ELr applique. made by pasting

- or stitching designs cut cut
of bright colored felt on
background of black material
Is just now much in favor for deco
rating various articles of wearing ap-
parel and all sorts of useful articles
suitable for Christmas gifts. Now is
the time to begin to use some OF
these suggestions and designs before
the holiday rush comes on.
Old felt hats, pennants or bedroom
slippers that have served their origi-
nal purpose can be turned TO timely
use as materials for felt applique
work. The secret of doing successful
work of this kind is first to get a
striking contrast between the designs
and the backgrounds Give your
imagination full play and design out
lines and color combinations that are
bright and gay.
novel utility bag for holding light
needlework materials or other light
articles can be made of black felt
with flower design appliqued on
the outside. Cut the flowers from
pieces of colored felt. Choose colors
that are not only bright, but that will
be effective when combined. Laven-
der, red. yellow and blue are good for
the purpose. For example. make one
flower yellow with a lavender CEN
ter. another dark blue with a red CEN
ter, and a third light blue with cen
ter of deep yellow. The leaves, of
course, should be of dark green. After
making the flowers. glue them and
the leaves to the bag, and place the
bag under a weight to dry. If you
prefer, you can attach the design to
the bag with silk floss or yarn.
Another good design for bag
is small tree. Cut out an ellipiti-
cal-Shaped piece of white felt
and attach it to the bag; then from
colored felt-for instance, purple-cut
cone-shaped tree that appears 10
be growing in a garden pot. FaSten Il
narrow yellow strip across the top
of the pot and then with black yarn
applique to the tree some small cir
cles of CoIored felt. 4 good plan is
to make up each circle from disks of
several sizes and COlorS, q small one
placed inside large one, and that in
color combinations are red. purple
and blue: blue, yellow and green,
and red. yellow and orange.
A hand for a sport hat may be made
of black felt, with three shades of
blue felt for the flowers, TO be ap-
pliQued on. The centers of the flow
ers should he Hack or green. and
the edges of the flowers should be
buttonholed to the band with green
yarn. Some long and short stitches
of the green yarn should he placed
on the band. radiating from the flow
ers in starlike shape to complete the
design on the hat band.
Ordinary straw mats can he turned
into very pretty table mats by plac-
ing small yellow felt circles on
slightly larger circles of orange felt
and stitching all the disks to the mat
with cross S-StitcheS worked in black
yarn. running stitch in black yarn
on the outer and inner edges of the
mat makes an attractive border.
You can make a lovely and novel
drawstring bag by first cutting black
felt or oilcl0th to the size ana shape
that you want Before YOU sew up
the pieces add a simple design of
oolored felt circles held fast by long
and-short buttoHhole stitching. Then
attach to every circle Il small center
of black felt. To give the bag full
ness and to hold the top fiat run into
the hemS two strips Of cardboard a
little shorter than the width Of the
bag. Finish the bag by huttonhoiing
nary seam. The bag will open read
lily if you leave an opening one or
two inches long on each side of it
below the strips of cardboard.
These are only few OF the ar
ticleS into which remnants of Colored
ANlI tttIi bt G'EiNtTIFu. tuSNlON COW
ers. table runners. sleeping robes ANA
many other articles can De decorated
IN this novel way with very little
work attached.
Dainty Collar and Can Sets.
A dress, or suit, or sweater can
be greatly improved in appearance
by the addition of a well chosen col
lar and cuff set, many of which are
easily made. very pretty set can
he made from one-fOurth of a ward
of orEandy that is thirty-siX or forty
inches wide. To make the collar. cut
from the piece of organdy a strip four
or five inches wide and tuck il tv
hand or machine. If you do the work
by hand. before you begin mark off
the points at which the tUCks must
he made so that they will he even
Make every tuck one-ciehth of an
inch wide and two or three inches