Salt Lake Herald | 1893-07-16 | Page 16 | A Cottage Footstool

A Cottage footstool A prettily shaped footstool can be made on a foundation of empty tomato cans Remove the tops and paste several thicknesses of newspaper smoothly around each can Then place one in the center of a large sheet of plain paper and put around it as many as you can all sides touching adjacent cans and the one in the center With a pencil pen-cil trace very carefully the exact outline out-line made on the paper by the group then remove the cans and cut out the outline This serves for a pattern and is used enlarged a quarter or a half inch all around to cat out two shapes of coarse strong stuff like ticking denim or burlap Tqese tyo nieces together with a strip the height of the cans form a rough cover for the footstool Stitch the strip all around one of the pieces then draw it over the cans as they are set in place it will fit in snugly around each Now turn all upside down and sew the other piece strongly on The solid ends of the cans are of course to come upward for the top of the stool Pad this upper side withcotton Then cut and put on in the same way as you did the coarse cover one made of the material desired for the footstool or perhaps Brussels carpeting car-peting any fabric you consider suitable finished with upholsterers cord to match around top and bottom The stool is firm durable and satisfactory in every respect A I WILLIS