| Show homemade home made rugs handsome and ornamental rugs rugg may laity be made inalle it at home one oae of the least expensive is the chenille rug arti collect all your rio mutter liow low small dinall or how bow much s oiled ald old flannels can be dyed with bright dyes alves and add very match to tile the beauty of tile the rug ant calt all the pieces 1 i aces into crosswise strips about li half 1 alf tit ai inch wide tile the length length is of no consequence thread a needle with avith very strung strong thread doubled Cla gather tiler tile hie pieces through t the lie cent center or with not too fi fine I 1 ie stitches As fast as a piece rk if gathered push it flown down close to the knot ilish each piece as tight as foible po ible to the next on continue in ill alis aliis wity until lie t thread call is ii full then tie tic ou another thread laid and proceed ns as before make in skeins keins about six long it requires about yards tor for a rug it talie it to a carpet weaver and ali d b have ave it woven three quarters of i 1 yard wide if you have enough reds of dif different shades shu liis to make fifty fifel eight yards for a bor border derat sit either cither end aid and have the center hit or miss it makes it a beautiful I 1 rug 0 tile these d I 1 rugs tile very C handsome a and nil being r alike on oil bot both sides side weir beautifully the only expense is in in weaving generally ve 50 cents or sl 1 this wor work liti utilizes lize pieces thit would otherwise find their way into the rag ra lim bag very pretty ali augi rp can call be made of small silk scrap no matter how bow ciuch the they will jail ii il work in cut in trips about halt half an all inch wide and ain d two indies long take a piece of ticking having leaving HIP stripes floodlit one third of an all inch ill wide cut it the size of tile the rug n wanted thread a sewing incelli machine al e with coat coarse so thread number thirty and needles needle place one of tile the ticking 0 stripes under the needle thell lay on oil tile the sill silk pieces close together 0 with alie tl ie middle of each cacti pil piece ce on oil tile the ticking stripe str ilic and stitch back aga again close to the last row of stitching this will make inake it strong put the ticking in ill place the next under needle fold back the fringe C made bythe by alie row bac back out olit of the iva way and proc proceed ell as before A black bordor border and mixed center are berr cv fich bool looking i atter alter the rug j s 3 ciuc alue with sonic some lica heavy vy material mall rial to keep it flat I 1 coille onie made inalle smyrna rugs rat p are very elegant and a lid when wh ell carefully cit linit are arc equal to the imp I 1 oiled led ones in beauty for these there comes a thick heavy called smyrna wool it comes in all the rich oriental colors mid and can call be bought tor for a pound poland it requires lour four pounds of tile the wool to make inake it a rug 0 one yard long by three quarters wide this is a size you also need two cc coarse a csc rsc steel knitting needles and dexter cotton number six there is a fine soft cotton culled smyrna cotton that ill it comes for knitting these rugs but it is more difficult to find it cut the wool in ill bits of if equal length about two inches with file cot cotton I 1 I 1 VIA cast on oil forty two stitches knit once across plain second row knit one cot cotton toil liy lay in a a piece of wool so that half is in front laid and half it at ill the back of llie file work knit in ill tile alien bring the half front from the back to the front oft of the ic work artil and knit in then liy lay in another piece of the wool and continue cou tinne until twenty pieces havo have been worked in thaid itow knit ii row of plain cotton then another aito lher with wool auk and so on oil alternately this his makes a strip nine iline inches wide it is knit width wise wic and lit in IM ai many strips as tile the mg u 0 is to be long alter after making t the he strip tile lie desirre debirt d length bind oaf As each strip is fini he hed with a sharp pair 0 of f acis scissors clip off the uneven ends before licci ing 1 places laces together knit ns as ti tight us is possible to make firm patterns conic come in colors for knitting these rugs but any pretty cros cross s stitch pattern will to do putting a 1 piece of wool tor for ever every stitch in ill it and knitting si a plain stitch between ra KM digs are knit from those these dr directions I 1 JL tion s mrs C S rox fox h I 1 H good GOO 7 |
