HOME DECORATIONS. 
Marguerite Tidy. 
T HESE pretty tidies are made of blue satin, yellow 
embroidery silk, and rick-rack braid ; if one pleases, 
a little painting in water-colors may be added, but the 
tidy will be complete, and very pleasing, without it. 
White daisies are made of rick-rack braid by sewing 
row after row around a circle made of white cotton cloth 
Marguerite Tidy. 
or muslin. The entire surface of the cloth, except a small 
space in the middle for the centre of the daisy, is covered, 
beginning with the outside row, and filling in till pll is 
covered but the space named. Then cut the braid, and 
fasten the end securely to the cloth. The centre should 
now be worked with the yellow embroidery silk, filling 
the whole of the small space with knot-stitch; or, instead 
of embroidery, crochet may be used. Make a small 
circle of plain crochet-stitch and sew it with the same 
colored silk into the space in the flower. The number of 
daisies and quantity of satin required will of course 
depend upon the size of the tidy. Therefore, when a 
sufficient number of daisies has been made for the four 
square blocks, the flowers are to be sewed together in 
four groups, with strong cotton. 
The satin strips are then prepared, and for these 
broad satin ribbon may be used. Fringe out one end of 
each strip, the other end of each piece is turned in to a 
point, which point forms the middle of the tidy. Sew it 
on the wrong side at the middle, where the points join, 
and at each corner just above the point. Thus no stitch¬ 
ing will appear on the right side. 
The flower-blocks are then sewed on the ribbon, filling 
in the four spaces. The ribbon should be cut long enough 
to allow the fringe to extend beyond the blocks and for 
the points to be formed in the middle. 
Satin can be used just as described for the ribbon, but 
it must be turned in about half an inch to keep it in place, 
and pressed with a moderately hot iron. Do not stitch or 
catch it, as the sewing would show on the right side, and 
thus spoil the effect. 
Sprays of buttercups and grasses painted with water- 
colors upon the satin strips give an exceedingly pretty 
finish, or embroidery can be used instead. 
Different colored satins may also be used if preferred, 
although the blue is rather prettier than any other shade. 
M. E. Whittemore. 
Home-made Traveling Bag. 
B ROWN canvas and heavy gray linen are suitable 
materials for this traveling bag, and the quantity 
required will be a strip three quarters of a yard long 
and half a yard wide, whichever material is chosen. Fold 
the strip together and turn the corners of the folded side, 
as seen at the top of the closed bag in the illustration. 
Make the pockets the width of the outside and ten 
inches deep ; bind the top of each with dark-brown dress 
braid, and join them to the outside with a straight piece 
of the material four inches wide, and long enough to fit 
around the pocket; bind the raw edges also with the 
braid. For the flaps cut pieces five inches deep, and the 
width of the pockets ; round the corners slightly and bind 
them; do not sew them on until the umbrella case is 
ready to be fastened'. For this case you will need a piece 
of the canvas or linen eighteen inches long and four wide; 
bind the ends and work a couple of eyelet-holes in each, 
through which to draw a piece of braid to tie the umbrella 
in place. At the top of the bag. where the fold was made 
Traveling Bag Open. 
