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Show i Dainty Little I : Christmas Gifts in Cretonne ! By DOROTHY PERKINS I : II (Copyright, by A. Neely Hall.) Dainty gifts covered in cretonne are certain to find a welcome in any household, and such a variety of things can be made that you will have no difficulty in filling a want of each one whom you. wish to remember on Christmas day. The unique pair of book ends in Fig. 1 are made of sirup cans. The secret of making satisfactory book ends is to properly weight them so they will not upset, and the book "V" A ends illustrated are weighted by fill- j ing the cans with sand. Cretonne with small patterns is tho ; most desirable for small articles, and patterns with dark backgrounds are preferable for articles such as the book ends, which are likely to soil through much handling. Sew a piece of cretonne around the sides of each j can, ihen by menus of a gathering string gather the cloth as indicated in Fig. 1. Sew a fancy button, or a cretonne cre-tonne covered button, to the center of the top. Fig. 2 shows a handy twine holder made of a sirup can. A hole must be pierced through the exact center of theeau bottom as an outlet for the string (A, Fig. :!K and holes one-half Inch apart must be pierecd through the top rim to provide a means of fastening fasten-ing the top edge of the cretonne. The holes can be perforated by means of a oaU. and hammer. Gather the cre tonne on the bottom, and turn the top edge over the rim and sew through the perforations in the rim. Make a hanger for the twine holder out of cretonne or ribbon. The hanging workbox in Fig. i requires re-quires a square cardboard box. Remove Re-move two adjacent sides of both the hox and cover (Fig. t). "then stitch the cover to the box (Fig. 6). The i . cretonne uia either bo stitched over the open edges of the box, or be glued to the cardboard. Sew a doubled strip of cretonne, or a ribbon, to the open corners for a hanger. The. dainty telephone book in Fig. 7 provides a handy directory for numbers num-bers used frequently, and numbers which may be wanted quickly in cases of emergency. The covers are of cardboard card-board (j inches wide and S inches long, and are hinged together by the ere- i ' . I tonne covering. Lap the cretonne j over the edges as indicated in Fig. S, j aud glue it. ta tie cardboard, and make a pocket on one edge, to hold a pencil. Cut sheets of writing paper of the right size to extend a trifle over the lapped edges of the cretonne, and glue them in place; then divide the paper into spaces, and index the spaces (Fig. 8). A fancy work ring provides a hanger. |