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Show Homemade Baskets. There is a way to make good baskets , at homo and pretty and cheap, too, out of corn husks thick outer husks for strong baskets, and for lighter and liner ones the white inner parts. 'These .. must be wrapped for an hour or so in a damp towel, and then cut into strips of equal width. Make an ordinary braid with six or more strips, which may be doubled, or even trebled, for freater strength, says the Detroit Free res3. Thread a needle with heavy, waxed linen thread, and having dampened the braid, form it into an oval, live or six inches long aud three wide, for the bottom of the basket, and sew tho adjoining edges of the braid together, as in a straw hat, but don't overlap them. Go on coiling and stitching for the sides of the basket, widening the opening until the basket is deep enough. The handles are made of a heavy, -threestranded braid, which is sewed all around the top of the basket, just iu-side, iu-side, and looped at the middle of each side. For ornament wind the handles with gay-colored ribbon or braid, put a box , plaiting of the sauio around the top and work a bunch of flowers on one side in t ' - bright worsteds, with long stitches. . The opposite side may have a lotter or a name. |