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Title: Fancy work for pleasure and profit
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Heron, Adelaide E
Subjects: Needlework
Publisher: Chicago, Thompson & Thomas
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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hings. Thesefigures can be cut out of anyodd bright-colored scrapsthe rag-bag may afford.They should be buttonhole-stitched on to the founda-tion. Old pieces of silk, rib-bon, velvet, flannel and cash-mere can be used indiscrim-inately. Picture books and Icards will furnish designs forcutting the scraps by, and thefigures may be further em-bellished by adding a fewembroidery stitches occasion-ally. But, made simple or elaborate, it islittle tots who can just crawl about, investigating everything on their handsand knees. They will spend any amount of time patiently trying to pick asmall boy, drum or wheel-barrow off the rug—sometimes developing a littlelatent temper when they dont succeed. For fairs or bazaars they are a decided success. Where it is not desiredto make up more than one rug for a bazaar a nice profit can be made bycutting sets of figures, ready for appliquing, out of bright felt or flannel.They could be sold very cheap, as the scraps and work would of course beaonated.
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FIG. 217.a most cunning article for the 2l6 DAINTY WORK FOR PLEASURE AND PROFIT. FOR THE DINING ROOM. Nowadays there are so many pretty novelties used on the dining tablesand sideboards that one need never be at a loss what to make for Christ-mas, wedding or birthday gifts, for ones married, or about-to-be-marriedlady friends. In the chapter on Flat or Art embroidery will be found alist of the various linen articles that are commonly used in the dining room.In this chapter there are several ideas in the same direction that will befound simple and inexpensive in the working out. Doyleys, mats of var-ious sizes, lunch sets, trayand bread cloths, etc.,offer a field for decorativeembroidery whose varietyscarcely knows a limit.The work required forthese articles is not exact-ing and only simple color-ing is required. Roman embroidery isespecially suitable for ta-ble linen and may be in-troduced in a center pieceas a border, while the cen-ter of the article may beembroidered with Dresdendes

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