. Fancy work for pleasure and profit. oi-dery is done with the same color fig. the foundation. Mail cloth, velvet, silk and ooze leather are all desirablefabrics for the pocket of stand, but of course more expensive than the case ooze leather is employed, two skins will be required. The dec-oration could be a conventional design stamped on the ooze leather andthen gone over with gold paint. As this paint comes ready for use, aperson need not be an artist to apply it. This leather can be had in ecru,white and bronze brown. The ecru treated as described would be ins
. Fancy work for pleasure and profit. oi-dery is done with the same color fig. the foundation. Mail cloth, velvet, silk and ooze leather are all desirablefabrics for the pocket of stand, but of course more expensive than the case ooze leather is employed, two skins will be required. The dec-oration could be a conventional design stamped on the ooze leather andthen gone over with gold paint. As this paint comes ready for use, aperson need not be an artist to apply it. This leather can be had in ecru,white and bronze brown. The ecru treated as described would be inside of pocket could be lined with some pretty, bright color,either green, rose or blue china silk, and the edges finished with aheavy cord. Artistic pockets for rack can be also made of Scotch homespun, whichis a pure linen fabric, very heavy, but without any twill. The decorationcould be a Dresden design of buttercups worked with yellow browns insilk or linen threads, or a design of music notes and violin could be workedon one 214 DAINTY WORK FOR PLEASURE AND CASE. A scissors case made as follows will be found a splendid article forfairs, Christmas or birthday gifts. The case, of course, must be cut to fit the scissors it is designed to hold, but the shapecan easily be copied from figure 216. Cut two piecesof cardboard, line them on the inside with a pieceof chamois skin or velvet, cover the outside withany scrap of silk or cloth that may be at hand. Jointhe two pieces together with a buttonhole stitch,done with rope silk or Royal floss. On the outsidecover work a design in solid Kensington stitch withfilo floss. The model shows lilies of the valley onmoss green velvet. The lining is of pink satin, andthe buttonhole stitching pale pink silk, though anycolors one happens to have will do equally well. Toembroider the design here shown will require one-half skein white filo floss, one thread of green filofloss, and one-half skein rope silk. The scissors cas
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