Chair scarfs, table-covers, pincushions and scarf bags are made of
these blocks, the latter put together with a satin puffing at the side and
the shirred top with draw strings. A series of cushions for the floor, one
piled upon another, making a soft and yielding ottoman, is very hand-
some made in the way described above, and if handsomely corded and
lined, with tassels on each corner, cannot be equaled, even if made of the
best plushes or velvets. Of course one wants to harmonize the colors
and be careful in outlining the designs on the blocks, else a tawdry
effect wi.l be produced that is very undesirable.
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PEN-WIPERS.
A novel one may be made by taking the small fancy baskets intended
for hair receivers, and putting in row after row of pinked flannel or
broadcloth, the depth of the basket, and in the center a china doll, with
bright sash draped around the shoulders, a la Goddess of Liberty, with
a liberty cap upon her head. Or a grotesque figure may be dressed and
placed in the center. The arms are intended to serve the purpose of
holding a pen. The doll looks very pretty in the center of all these
flutings of bright flannel.
A parasol one is of bright-colored silk, attached to an ivory handle,
and filled inside with cloth. Another is made of rounds of wash-leather ;
the outside a circle of dark morocco, with a floral spray painted with
gold or mixed colors.
A new and odd one is the Chinese. Take a diminutive Chinese fan
with a long handle, cover the fan with silk on both sides, cut several
pieces of black cloth and fasten each side of the fan, pink the edges of
cloth for the outside, cover with silk and put a Chinese picture in the
center ; to complete, put on a few pretty light feathers turning toward the
handle, and finish off with a fine cord and small tassels.
PIANO COVERS.
A very handsome sunflower piano cover is made by taking dark blue
cloth, Indian red, or maroon broad cloth, and working with a border of
sunflowers. This is worked on a band of black cloth inserted between
narrow bands of the material used for the cover. Small sunflowers cut
out of yellow felt, the centers of brown plush, are appliqued in a con-
tinuous vine upon the border, with stalks worked in brown crewel and
foliage cut from shades of green cloth on serge and applied. The edges
can be worked in loose button-hole stitch in crewel of the same yellow,
which, at a little distance, can hardly be distinguished. The leaves may
veined and edged with a light or dark green crewel in contrast with the
ground of the leaf. The same idea may be carried out in other flowers
or in vines either embroidered or painted.
PIN CUSHIONS.
A pretty one for library or office is in the shape of a drum, with two
pins with ornamental heads for sticks. The large gilt ones will do for
this and they should be crossed on the top. Take a straight piece of stuff
one and one-half inches high and four and one-quarter inches wide,
and two rounds measuring one and one-quarter inches. Sew and stuff
with bran emery powder. The top and bottom are covered with a piece
of white silk ; the edge is ornamented with a little band of velvet, on
the cross (same as a drum is often painted), with stitches of gold-
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AI-modernized reading of the original text
Chair scarfs, table-covers, pincushions and scarf bags are made of these blocks, the latter put together with a satin puffing at the side and the shirred top with draw strings. A series of cushions for the floor, one piled upon another, making a soft and yielding ottoman, is very handsome made in the way described above, and if handsomely corded and lined, with tassels on each corner, cannot be equaled, even if made of the best plushes or velvets. Of course one wants to harmonize the colors and be careful in outlining the designs on the blocks, else a tawdry effect will be produced that is very undesirable.
PIN CUSHIONS, 75
PEN-WIPERS.
A novel one may be made by taking the small fancy baskets intended for hair receivers, and putting in row after row of pinked flannel or broadcloth, the depth of the basket, and in the center a china doll, with bright sash draped around the shoulders, a la Goddess of Liberty, with a liberty cap upon her head. Or a grotesque figure may be dressed and placed in the center. The arms are intended to serve the purpose of holding a pen. The doll looks very pretty in the center of all these flutings of bright flannel.
A parasol one is of bright-colored silk, attached to an ivory handle, and filled inside with cloth. Another is made of rounds of wash-leather ; the outside a circle of dark morocco, with a floral spray painted with gold or mixed colors.
A new and odd one is the Chinese. Take a diminutive Chinese fan with a long handle, cover the fan with silk on both sides, cut several pieces of black cloth and fasten each side of the fan, pink the edges of cloth for the outside, cover with silk and put a Chinese picture in the center ; to complete, put on a few pretty light feathers turning toward the handle, and finish off with a fine cord and small tassels.
PIANO COVERS.
A very handsome sunflower piano cover is made by taking dark blue cloth, Indian red, or maroon broad cloth, and working with a border of sunflowers. This is worked on a band of black cloth inserted between narrow bands of the material used for the cover. Small sunflowers cut out of yellow felt, the centers of brown plush, are appliqued in a continuous vine upon the border, with stalks worked in brown crewel and foliage cut from shades of green cloth on serge and applied. The edges can be worked in loose button-hole stitch in crewel of the same yellow, which, at a little distance, can hardly be distinguished. The leaves may veined and edged with a light or dark green crewel in contrast with the ground of the leaf. The same idea may be carried out in other flowers or in vines either embroidered or painted.
PIN CUSHIONS.
A pretty one for library or office is in the shape of a drum, with two pins with ornamental heads for sticks. The large gilt ones will do for this and they should be crossed on the top. Take a straight piece of stuff one and one-half inches high and four and one-quarter inches wide, and two rounds measuring one and one-quarter inches. Sew and stuff with bran emery powder. The top and bottom are covered with a piece of white silk ; the edge is ornamented with a little band of velvet, on the cross (same as a drum is often painted), with stitches of gold-