The playwork book . strong red cotton thread,yellow or silk thread, green wool, a little emerypowder, a tiny piece of hard soap or wax candle,scissors, and crewel needle. To make this you must get a little brightred material about three inches square anda little thin cotton material the same both together and fold them diagonal-ly across from corner to corner with thered material inside, and with fine threadand needle and very small stitches sew itfrom the two loose corners up to the pointwhere it is folded, so that it forms a tri-angular bag. Now the bag should be fold-ed over so tha
The playwork book . strong red cotton thread,yellow or silk thread, green wool, a little emerypowder, a tiny piece of hard soap or wax candle,scissors, and crewel needle. To make this you must get a little brightred material about three inches square anda little thin cotton material the same both together and fold them diagonal-ly across from corner to corner with thered material inside, and with fine threadand needle and very small stitches sew itfrom the two loose corners up to the pointwhere it is folded, so that it forms a tri-angular bag. Now the bag should be fold-ed over so that you can measure off on thediagonal fold the same length as thestitched seam, and cut away the extra ma-terial as in Figure 22. Now take some hard AN EMERY CUSHION 43 soap, or a piece of wax candle, and rub ithard all over the cotton material in orderto prevent your emery stuffing getting out,trim off any extra thickness of material atthe point, and turn the bag red side outand run it very finely round the opening. Figs. 2^ to 24: with strong needle and thread. Draw thethread up a little, as in Figure 23, and nowtake your emery powder and fill up tightwith that. If you cannot get emery getsome fine dry sand, or you can even povmdup some cinders out of the fire, and fill yourlittle bag very tight with the powder youmake, and draw up the thread and stitch itvery close. Next you must take your greenwool or silk, and make long loop stitches 44 THE PLAYWORK BOOK all round the top until all the opening andthe gathered up portion is neatly coveredwith these stitches, like sepals on a on a little cord or loop of ribbon, andwith a yellow thread make even stitchesall over your little bag, till it looks just likea strawberry—Figure 24. RAT-TAIL KNITTING Materials Required:— A large cork, large reel^ or a small piece of a narrowcardboard roller, strong pins, preferably those knownas iaundry pins, a small crochet hook, coloredwools. This is known as rat-tail knitting, orc
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