The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-30
3AY RIBBON CHRISTMAS GIFTS A GIPT, CAN MAKE

ing the gifts shown here for your famliy and friends.
 Your big sister would be delighted with a hand mirror for her dressing table, which you can make any color yea desire. It would be good idea to have it match the chief .colorS ef tlE shinss in her 'ssI. o.,s.es ,s...rAl,,r4.. ;: s'- The materi.ls needed for the nairrsr are as follows: Ore weodn sisosn, butter pat, thHee and sDe-haH yznas of one-inciA rihhsa, ene9aarter yard eight-inch rikben, q ssoking sias. feur inches wide by six and one-hahN inches high, and pieec of stiff eardbeard ioar and one-haf inches wide by seven inches deep.
 For the fonndation of the mirror cen for tbe wooden spoon on the butter pat and screw it carefully, as IS shown ln Figure 1. Next cover the handle with ribbon wound tightly and fastened at the base of the butter pat
 Tack Ribbon In Place
 Tn covering the back of the butter nat. use three and one-half inches of the ribbon, and tack it as shown in Figure 2. This leaves the back of the pat T rounded, surface. and the front flat and uncovered. It is b this flat surface that the carGboara-baekea looking glass IS later attached
 The next step, Figure 2. looks great deal more difficult than 1t really is The woven; criss-eross effect cover ing the butter pat is obtained by fold ing the ribbon at an. angle, like the dotted lines in the Ffure, and tackins each fold into place. The ribbon ls crossed over to the other side, where it is folded and tackled in the same fashion, until the pat is entirely coyeied. Figure shows the ribbon wound straight around the -e1sa and sewed.
 Make Cardboard Backing
 In mounting the looking glass; make the cardboard backing first. Cover this cardboard with the remainder of .ae wide ribbon, tacking it down at the corners, as you did the covering of the butter pat in Eigrue 2
 Center the looking glass on the url- covered side of the eardboarss and glue it firmly. If you would like an attrac- tive finish to your glass, fplA your mar row ribbon Eagthwfse, making it 9sst- half inch wide, and sew t around the edge of your glass. like Figure c.
 Gluer Glass kn Pzare
 In mounting the finished s,sk to the back of the glass, be sure you glue # securely and tack it firmly in several places. Figure shows the completed hand mirror, and has added some pret- ty touches in the resebuas and ribbon bow at the handle.
 If you like to work with ribbon you will also enj8y making the attracfiSe bag the girl in the picture is holding This requires several kinds of ribbon, and can be made in any color you de sire. with the same or contrasting c0ier for lining. X dull green moire bag lined with some fancy designed ribbon should be very attractive.
 Make Ribbon Bag
 You will need one yard of ten-ineh ribbon for the outside, and the same amount for the lining of the bag Two amber rings, twe.thirds of yard of one-inch ribbon for the handles, and two-thirds of a yard of One-inch ribbon for the top of the bag complete your ma terials,
 Figure 8 shows the two pieces of rib bon placed tagethers each with the wrong side on the outside. Sew them together on Eae two bong edges and on one short one. leaving the fourth side for the opening through which to turn the bag inside out. When you have re- verSAd the bag, fold in the edges of the fourth side and make neat seam.
 FaEd KihboA
 Next. fould your ribbon in two with inc lining on the outside. so that your bag measures eighteen inches in length. and measure off three inches from the tops of both ends This leaves 2 dis ,auce of fifteen inches to the bottom ef the bag. Sew the sides together on bath edges, as in Figure 2. and turn the bag inside out. Tie a large, roemy knot about four inches from the bottom of the bag and tack it firmly.
 Cut the narrow ribbon into two pieces of ten inches in length,~ place them across the top ends of both sides of the bag, as is shown in Figure 10. Sew them on the inside of the bag, and insert an amber ring into each ones as in