LADIES' PAKCt trOJJJ*. 



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luindle with silver or gold cord; the same should run along the edges of the 

 opening. This dainty piece of home art forms a lovely card basket. A 

 common straw hat, a size to lit a boy of six years, can be made inio an 

 arti&tic novelty. Face the brim with satin nicely pleated; fill the crown 

 with artificial flowers; secure them from tumbling out by long loops of 

 threads; suspend the hat from the top of a cabinet or music stand; the eflFect 

 is very bright and pleasing. Industrious fingers willing to devote time to the 

 manipulation of home decoraliou may shape out many lovely things from 

 bits of silk, satin, velvet, and scraps of all wool g«x>ds. The top of a table 

 covered with work of this kind in very handsome, and a like decoration for 

 a carved bracket ia 

 remarkably showy. 



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frame- work of this 

 article is made of 

 pieces of cardboard 

 sewed together Tlie 

 materials required 

 for the outside are 

 drab Holland cre- 

 tonne, flowers, fancy 

 braid, and worsteds 

 to match flowers in 

 color. A cord i s 

 drawn through eye- 

 let holes at the top 

 of tlie bag, and a 

 large taasel of wor- 

 sted finishefl the bot- 

 tom. 



A Rosette. — 



Rosettes are often 

 useful in tidies, lar- 

 ders and the like. 

 To make the above, 

 begin with a chain 

 of four stitches, and 

 unite in a ring. In 

 this loop work twenty 

 trebles. 



Second round. — i^. .. ,l,,. 



Work one chain and 



one treble over each treble of the last round. Third round. — * On the treble 

 and next chain make a leaf thus: The cotton twice round the needle, take up 

 the stitch, work through two, cotton on the needle, draw through two; cot- 

 ton on the needle, take up the stitch again, work through two, cotton on the 

 needle, work through two; cotton on the needle, take up the next stitch, and 

 work all off the needle, two loops at a time; then four chain. Repeat fhim *. 

 Fourth round. — One DC on the middle of the four chain, * five chain, 

 one DC on the middle of the next four chain; repeat from *. Fasten off 

 neatly at the end of the rotind. 



