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PEN-WIPERS AND SCISSORS’ SHEATH. 
FEATHER PEN-WIPER. 
This elegant little article is composed of a pigeon’s 
wing, blue, scarlet, and black cloth, and a bit of scar¬ 
let ribbon. Take a strip of black cloth fifteen inches 
long and two and a half inches wide; gather it round 
the top, and sew it up in the centre of the hack neatly, 
so as to give it a hell shape; then take a strip of red 
cloth two inches. longer and a little wider than the 
black, and one of blue cloth the same length and half 
the width; scallop and pink them round the edges; 
gather and sew together the scarlet strip like the 
black, arrange over it and then add the blue, done in 
the same manner, next the wing, to which all should 
he sewed firmly; then a scarlet or black ribbon is 
tied around and arranged in a pretty how in front, to 
hide the joinings of the cloth to the wing. 
BUTTERFLY PEN-WIPER. 
This shape is easily made, and looks quite pretty. 
First cut out a piece of black velvet the -shape of the 
butterfly’s wings; buttonhole stitch all round the out¬ 
side of the wings with bright gold-colored sewing silk, 
and do the chain-stitch lines with the same. For the 
straight bars on the wings, use red sewing silk, and 
sew on small gilt beads, according to the figure. For 
the body, cut out another piece of velvet the size you 
require; sew it up, over and over, and stuff with cot¬ 
ton wool; twist round the neck a piece.of red silk, 
cross the same over the back and again round the end, 
and fasten it off, putting two heads in the head for 
eyes. The iuside leaves must he made of black cloth, 
two or three thicknesses, and the back of another piece 
of plain black velvet; then stitch together neatly 
through the wings each side of the body. Light drab 
velvet is also pretty for these pen-wipers.' 
GAUNTLET PEN-WIPERS. 
This pretty method of constructing pen-wipers must 
not he left from our list, as they are really worth the 
trouble of making them. Cut two pieces of black 
cloth the shape of a gauntlet glove ; sew over and 
over around the edges to the wrist, which leave open 
down the sides; now back-stitch together the two 
pieces where the fingers would he. separated in a teal 
glove. Chain-stitch with bright-colored silk, three 
round the hack of the hand ; then take some wicking, 
attach a small darning-needle threaded with common 
thread to the end, run the needle successively up 
through the hand and out at the tip of the fingers, 
drawing the thread tight until the wicking fills up to 
the end of the finger, leaving the lower ends to stuff 
out the hand as far as the wrist A little cotton wool 
besides, will he needed to fill out the hand. Cut sev¬ 
eral pieces of old black silk or thin cloth, and fasten 
firmly between the two outside pieces of the wrist, to 
wipe the pen on. Put a piece of ribbon around at the 
wrist the color of the chain stitching on.the backhand 
finish with a small bow on the bade of the wrist. 
OAK-LEAF PEN-WIPER. 
The materials • for this nice pen-wiper are green,, 
brown or red cloth for the outside, black.'for the inside, 
and brown or green zephyr worsted. Gut: two shapes 
like the .pattern, of either color of cloth mentioned,; 
buttonhole stitch around the edges with sewing silk of 
a shade darker than the cloth; embroider the acorns 
with either brown or green zephyr by taking the 
stitches the long way, very closely together. Form 
the cups of brown zephyr by small French knots, and 
sew the stems neatly over and over with zephyr the 
color of the leaf; this is for the upper side; for the 
under side the leaf may he simply veined. Cut three 
or four leaves of black cloth a trifle smaller than the 
outside ones, and without the upper stem; point these, 
and laying them between the outside ones, fasten 
together neatly at each side of the centre stem for a 
short distance from the top, and you have a nice little 
gift for some friend’s writing-desk. 
There are many other pretty ways of making these 
useful additions to a secretary or desk, one of which is 
made by cutting three pieces of broadcloth about two 
and a half inches square; fold these together, and sew 
them down the centre, so as to form a shape like the 
pattern below. The first three can he simply sewed 
together with black silk, and a little figure worked 
near the top with bright zephyr or silk; now cut three 
more pieces about two inches square; work them 
down the centre, after folding like the first, with bright 
zephyr or silk, in herring-bone stitch; also work 
little figure near top like pattern. Either point or 
buttonhole stitch the upper edges. Fasten the three 
larger pieces together at the low T er points, and at the 
sides, so as to form a fan shape; then fasten the other 
three in like manner; place over the larger ones and 
fasten at the lower, and near the upper points; finish 
off at the lower points by a faucy button on each side, 
or a little bow of ribbon. Another method is to cut 
circular pieces of card-hoard, cover with velvet or silk; 
cut three or four pieces of black cloth, point them- 
finely; place then! between the covers, and fasten a 
fancy button on either side; or cut circular pieces of 
black cloth, and fasten all over them small round 
pieces of bright-colored cloth about the size of a wafer, 
laid one over the other, like the scales of a fish. Place 
several pieces of cloth cut round, folded together in 
centre, then again, and fastened together at the points, 
between these outside pieces. 
EMBROIDERED SCISSORS’ SHEATH. 
The. materials for this useful article for the work- 
box, are gray, blue or black kid, gold thread, or sad¬ 
dlers’ silk of different colors, silk cord or chenille, 
card-board, white kid, grey sewing silk. Cut two 
pieces ot card-board the shape of the pattern, covered 
outside with the embroidered kid and inside with white 
kid; sew together over and overstitch. Trim the 
edge with silk cord or chenille. Instead of kid, nice 
cloth, thick silk, or Velvet can he used, and the em¬ 
broidery—worked in satin stitch—may he done with 
gold thread, chenille, or saddlers’ silk of various colors. 
I have made them without any embroidery, and 
trimmed the edge with chenille, forming it into three 
leaves in centre of each side at the top, and they are 
very neat, done in this manner. 
Mrs. Mary I. Herron. 
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