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Show DAINTY GIFTS FOR THE BABY Why Not an Eiderdown for the Rest of the Winter? N ' j w that the rush of the holidays is almost forgotten, the woman who likes to keep her fingers busy with daiuty 6ewlng is ready to take up tome new work And nothing in the way of handiwork is more appealing than some pretty garment for sonv-body's sonv-body's babv. The baby itself makes little difference. If it belongs to one self or to a distracted Belgian peasant, peas-ant, the pleasure of sewing daintily for it is the same Of course, sewing for the little war babies of Belgium usually produces garments of a most practical sort So for the present, consider the babies who Deed more elaborate or daintier i garments Here are some suggestions that may fill their needs: An eiderdown coat. io wear througb the rest of the cold weather and there may be a good deal of it. Pale blue, pale pink or white this coat may be. One pretty way to make it is to bind the sleeves and the edges witu wide satin ribbon, featherstltcbing very finely into place. This little coat can be lined with white China silk, smoothly and neath tacked in I place If the coat Is pink, the ribbon Should be pink, and blue ribbon should ;rim a blue coat; but either color may be used on a white coat. Anoth er pretty riuish is to blindstitch the ribbon in place and then trim it with two little rosettes one on each side of the neck opening, and two more, one on each sleeve An eiderdown carriage cover will be useful for several weeks more it should be made big enough to tuck comfortably into the carriage on all Mdes, and then it should be bound With ribbon around the edge. A big ribbon bow in the center can be used for decoration, or else little clusters of satin roses may be used for decoration deco-ration They will wash or clean satis-factorlly. satis-factorlly. Another way of finishing the blanket 16 to gather the ribbon on both sides before using It as a binding, bind-ing, and so forming a sort of double frill of It The woman who can embroider might start a carriage robe of pique I or linen now Those with a turnover cuff at the top are perhaps the most I effective English eyelet work is always al-ways effective on these covers, and it should be generously combined with sa'in stitch. Yokes for babies' frocks are an I other welcome gift from the embroid- , err. These should be made of handkerchief hand-kerchief linen of a sheer, fine quality, and the embroidery should be of the daintiest The woman who does not like to embroider can make a very dainty yoke from a fine handkerchief, embroidered at the comers or ail around the edge. The handkerchief is cut into quarters. quar-ters. Two corners from the two lower low-er corners of the back yokes, and the two other corners are placed together in the front, and these two quants are fastened together with fine inser tion or with fagoting. Then the upper up-per edges are rounded for the neck and slanted off for the shoulders and joined to tho hack yokes, similarly shaped The remaining raw edges are rounded out for the armholes This may sound rather complicated, bin cut a square of paper or muslin the size of a handkerchief and work out the problem with that, and you will spp that It is very simple. |