American Agriculturist, May 12,1923 
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A Nursery Rhyme Quilt For the A. A. Baby 
Twenty Easily Embroidered Squares Represent Children's Beloved Mother Goose Songs 
D reams of Tom, Tom the Piper’s 
Son, Taffy the Welchman, Curly- 
Locks, and Simple Simon will be sure 
to come to the child who sleeps under 
this Mother Goose Quilt. 
For each square represents a fa¬ 
miliar nursery rhyme, and when the 
twenty squares are put together, lo 
and behold! there is a wonderful quilt 
to “wrap the Baby Bunting in!” 
The picture shows the quilt put to¬ 
gether. Each square, you will see, is 
made up of quaint outlines and even 
a very little girl or boy can pick out 
Mary and her famous lamb, the cow 
jumping over the moon, and other 
familiar characters from Mother 
Goose. 
The nursery quilt has many ad¬ 
vantages besides its appealing rhymes. 
Each square can be worked separately 
so that it can be carried in an embroid¬ 
ery bag, as “pick-up-work” without the 
whole quilt, which would be more 
bulky. 
Then, too, the simplest outline 
stitch, which works so quickly, is used. 
It takes about 15 minutes to make each 
square. Yet if the designs are done in 
delft blue, for instance, on white, the 
effect is most unusual. The original 
quilt used the simplest materials, but, 
evolved a very pretty one by mounting 
the white squares on 
blue cambric. The 
squares may be close to¬ 
gether or more widely 
separated, according to 
the size of the bed or 
crib the quilt is to cover. 
Something for the Little 
Girl to Make 
Another i d e a—this 
quilt would make a 
splendid thing to use in 
teaching the little girl 
to use her needle. If she 
has a baby brother or 
sister it will be a work 
of love for her to stitch 
the squares one by one. 
Mother can sew them to¬ 
gether for her and finish 
the hem. 
And hex’e’s another 
idea! If you fasten the 
squares together with 
the embroidery floss in 
open work effect, your 
quilt will never be 
mussed by folding and 
keeping in a drawer. 
You can fold on the lines 
of the connecting stitches 
and make it a very 
small size without rump¬ 
ling a single square. 
The American Agri¬ 
culturist has made a 
special arrangement 
with the designer of the 
Mother Goose quilt. 
Ruby Short Me Kim, 
which permits us to offer 
transfer designs for the 
entire set of twenty 
squares for only 65c. 
How to Transfer the 
Picture 
You know how to use 
the transfer patterns, 
don’t you? Have your 
squares of material. 
I’eady, allowing a fair 
margin so that the de¬ 
sign does not look 
crowded. Then put the 
tissue paper transfer 
face down on the ma¬ 
terial, being very sure 
to have it perfectly 
straight and in the exact 
center. Run a hot iron 
over the paper and 
when you lift it, you will 
find your design neatly 
transferred to the ma¬ 
terial. 
A fairly heavy grade 
of embroidery cotton or 
mlk show up effectively. 
Outline stitch (you will 
iiotice the pictures are 
made from straight lines 
^ly) is the best to use. 
You can add any fancy 
stitches at the edges that you wish but 
the simpler this quilt is kept, the pret¬ 
tier it will be. 
The outside edges may be hemmed, 
by machine or hand, or could be turned 
up and fastened with French knots, 
featherstitching or any pretty finish, 
that is a little distinctive. 
' In addition to furnishing the trans¬ 
fer patterns, we will also send, with 
, every set, a printed copy of the Mother 
Goose rhymes illustrated. If the little 
girl tries her hand at the quilt she will 
enjoy memorizing the simple lines as 
she takes the stitches. 
Grandmother Made Quilts, Too 
Surely great grandmother, whose 
cross-stitched sampler hangs on the 
wall, or grandmother, who started her 
first quilt while still a very little girl, 
never had a more fascinating subject 
to work on than this! The handicraft 
editor, who is always on the lookout 
for original designs, searched for a 
long time before she found this quilt 
and then felt very proud to have the 
exclusive right to its use. The price 
of the transfer designs just covers the 
cost, and American Agriculturist read¬ 
ers who buy the set may be sure that 
they not only have a real “bargain” 
but also can make, with very little 
work, something quite unique to cover 
the baby’s crib. 
_ The twenty blocks, as shown in the 
picture represent the following rhymes: 
1, Mary had a little Lamb; 2, Hey, 
diddle, diddle; 3, See Saw, Margery 
Daw; 4, There was an old woman 
tossed up in a basket; 5, There was a 
Crooked Man; 6, Barber, Barber, Shave 
a Pig; 7, The Queen of Hearts; 8, 
Sing a Song of Sixpence; 9, As I went 
up a Primrose Hill; 10, Little Tommy 
Tucker; 11, Tom Tom, the Piper’s Son; 
12, Polly put the Kettle on; 13, Ding, 
Dong, Dell; 14, Simple Simon met a 
Pieman; 15, Three Blind Mice; 16, 
Taffy was a Welchman; 17, Goosey 
Goosey, Gander; 18, Curly Locks; 19, 
A dillor a Dollar, and 20, Blow, Wind 
Blow. 
Send 65c in stamps or money order 
for the set of quilt transfer blocks 
with rhymes for each to Embroidery 
Department, American Agriculturist, 
461 Fourth Ave., Hew York City. 
PIN-MONEY SUGGESTIONS 
Yes, the quilt on this page would sell 
readily in thrift and gift shops during 
the summer, but that is not our only 
suggestion for bringing in the extra 
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dollars. These are two ideas sent by 
Bell Ellicott Palmer, who knows that 
both have worked out successfully: 
Culled Fruit Possibilities 
Last summer one farmer’s wife in 
Illinois spent an hour or two in the cool 
of morning or evening, turning a few 
jar^ of ripe fruit into jelly or preserves 
or making pickles. 
A friend of hers in a nearby town 
owned a little home, the living-room of 
which had a bay-window facing the 
street. Here they put up a counter 
covered with white oil-cloth. All the 
jellies, pickles and preserves the country 
friend could possibly send, sold readily 
at noon-time to the teachers and chil¬ 
dren of the next-door school. Often, too, 
mothers or automobilists took away 
baskets of the dainty sweets. The 
profits, shared equally between the two, 
averaged from $30 to $50 a month 
apiece. During the holidays they 
averaged $100 each, as big baskets 
were purchased for invalids shut-ins 
or hospitals. 
One elderly woman planted a 30- 
foot square in herbs—mint, sage, laven¬ 
der, balsam, ambrosia and the like; also 
lemon-verbena, rose-geranium and pars¬ 
ley. After the soil was once dug for 
her, it was only a pleasure to plant 
and cultivate, as these 
herbs and plants almost 
take care of themselves. 
When the leaves were 
ready to pick, grand¬ 
mother gathered and 
dried them, then filled 
littl^ white tarleton bags. 
A grocer-store proprietor 
gladly sold them, for his 
customers loved to have 
delicate old time fra¬ 
grance in their clothes 
chest. Mint and parsley 
were purchased by the 
epicurean, as even in 
their dried state they are 
excellent for winter sea¬ 
soning. Small bags of 
rose leaves, lemon-ver¬ 
bena or rose-geranium 
also sold readily. 
The bags sold at 20 
cents for the small size; 
25-50 cents for the larger. 
The sofa-cushion size of 
crushed fragrant leaves 
went at $1. The mer¬ 
chant charged 10 per 
cent as his commission. 
In one year, grandmother 
netted $150. 
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THAT OLD RAIN¬ 
COAT 
An old raincoat of 
rubberized cloth has 
many useful possibili¬ 
ties. Who doesn’t dread 
the return trip from a 
bathing ^expedition with 
piles of soggy suits and 
shoes in the bottom of 
the car? From this rub¬ 
berized cloth, make bags 
into which the wet things 
may be'thrust, and the' 
car will be neat, with no 
possibilities of acciden¬ 
tal wettings to clean 
garments. 
Another useful article 
is a roomy flat pocket to 
be fastened to the rug- 
rail of the car. Here 
may safely be placed 
the collection of “treas¬ 
ures” joyously accumu¬ 
lated by the children— 
and sometimes by the 
a cl u It s—on summer 
jaunts! 
A similar collection of 
pockets permanently 
placed on the wall of the 
back entry or woodhouse 
makes a good receptacle 
for wet -rubbers and the 
like. 
An oblong of the cloth 
makes a convenient apron 
for such jobs as washing 
muddy vegetables and 
scrubbing.—A. M. A, 
