. Fancy work for pleasure and profit. of its three sides for the top orcover and a hectagon shapedpiece for the bottom, measur-ing seven inches on each of itssix sides. Cover the three side-pieces on one side with duckor canvas, and the other withsilesia or anything else youchoose, using the latter alsofor the top and bottom the three side-pieces toalternate sides of the hectagonwith three half-yard breadthsof Chinese or Japanese silk,properly lined, filled betweenthe three boards, beginningseven inches from the top andfulled into the remaining sidesof the hectagon. Gather thesilk b
. Fancy work for pleasure and profit. of its three sides for the top orcover and a hectagon shapedpiece for the bottom, measur-ing seven inches on each of itssix sides. Cover the three side-pieces on one side with duckor canvas, and the other withsilesia or anything else youchoose, using the latter alsofor the top and bottom the three side-pieces toalternate sides of the hectagonwith three half-yard breadthsof Chinese or Japanese silk,properly lined, filled betweenthe three boards, beginningseven inches from the top andfulled into the remaining sidesof the hectagon. Gather thesilk breadths closely in at thetop and fasten the upper por-tion of the three boards to-gether. Put a ruffle of the silkaround the triangular pieceand fasten it to one side of thetop for a cover. The painting—it might beembroidery on appropriate material—had best be done before putting theparts together. The article illustrated has large, dull, yellow flowers, some-what conventionalized and well shaded in different forms upon the three. FIG. 210. 2o6 DAINTY WORK FOR PLEASURE AND PROFIT. sides, the background being formed by painting the surface of the threepieces over with a delicate bluish gray. The silk is yellow, and yellow satinbows, one on the cover one hanging from the top by an ecru Tyrol cord, fin-ishes the basket. The long lines of the sides are artistically broken by loop-ings of this cord, across from where the silk fullness begins. Other colorsmay be used, but all must harmonize or the basket will not be **a thing ofbeauty. The most convenient way to paint the panels will be to first cover thementirely and evenly with the gray background; gray is simply red, blue andyellow combined, and is bluish, purplish or greenish, according to the pre-dominating colors in the mixture. In mixing put your red and bluetogether with a very little ivory black and a good deal of white, and thentone with the yellow. When this background is dry, paint the flowers uponit. For the colors n
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