CORNER FOR BUSY BEES.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 218, 14 September 1929, Page 3 (Supplement)

CORNER FOR BUSY BEES.

EMBROIDERED ARTICLES. SUITABLE PRESENTS FOR LITTLE PEOPLE. (Conducted by TINKER BELL.) Dear Girls, — Quite a long time ago I told you how to make embroidery cards by placing dainty pictures over pieces of linen and stitching over them. This week I have another inspiration. Why not embroider some of your things with iittle pictures of Ginger Meggs? Really it is quite an easy way of decorating. You first put the picture which you want to make on top of the piece of linen, and tack it lightly in position. You then take needle and thread, and sew with an "over and over" stitch all the surface of Ginge's head, using, of course, a thread which is as near to a ginger colour as you can possibly get. Ginge's shirt sleeves and shirt front are stitched in white cotton, his little coat in cotton of black, and his trousers in red. All the flesh parts are worked in light piak or flesh colour, with the eyes made by a black dot, likewise the nose, and the eyebrows made by a ginger stitch. Master Meggs , tiny legs are also mads of a light pink or flesh colour, and his socks can be black, brown, or any colour you like. His boots, of course, muet be black. When the sewing operation has been completed, the paper is pricked with a sha;-p needle. The Hti'<s figure looks particularly attractive ;f it is worked neatly, and if handmade handkerchiefs were embroidered in i:his way, they would be particularly acceptable by little folk, who are always attracted by anything bright and funny.