OCR Text |
Show g?)g; BT,....HEUH1AI!, KEEP A SMALL MAGNET in your sewing box to use for picking up pins and needles that fall to the floor while sewing. This is much easier than stooping to get them one by one. Silk and sheer materials will not pucker while you run them through the sewing machine if you place tissue paper underneath them whilesewing. The paper is pulled off easily after the stitch-ing stitch-ing is done. -j To make even hems, cut a piece of cardboard the size of the hem and use it as a marker, slipping the card In as you hem and moving mov-ing it along as you work. When you have to hold a piece of sewing taut, use a brick which has been padded. Keep it in the sewing room at part of your equipment. equip-ment. Scissors which are not too dull can be sharpened at home by cutting cut-ting several strips of sandpaper with them. THIS WEEK'S RECIPE Garden Style Spinach (Serves 5) 1 pound fresh spinach, cleaned 1 teaspoon salt 4 tablespoons bacon fat 1 cup diced beets 2 tablespoons vinegar teaspoon salt teaspoon pepper 2 hard-cooked eggs, chopped Sprinkle spinach with salt; cook in heavy covered sauce pan 10 minutes. Do not add water. Drain and chop coarsely. coarse-ly. Heat bacon fat in skillet; add beets and heat thoroughly. Add vinegar, salt, pepper, spinach and eggs. Heat. Large holes in stocking can be darned by cutting a piece of mosquito mos-quito netting and darning it to the stocking until the hole is covered. |