CORNER FOR BUSY BEES.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 224, 21 September 1929, Page 3 (Supplement)

CORNER FOR BUSY BEES.

A NOVEL PINCUSHION. MADE IN THE SHAPE OF A SHOE. (Conducted by TINKER BELL.) Dear Girls, — It does not require much sljill to make the shoe-shaped pincushion which is shown in the illustration, and the materials needed will most probably be found in the work-basket, or, if they must be bought, will cost only a few pence.

Two shapes (as illustrated) must be cut from stout cardboard, and covered with pieces of sateen, bright coloured silk, or velvet. Ribbon is sewn across the two shapes in such a way as to connect them together, making a solid shoe the width of the ribbon wide. A email portion of the heel must be left unsewn, and through this gap. bran is poured into the hollow shape, and rammed down until the shoe is stuffed tight, when the gap is stitched up. i

A ribbon, fancily sewn as in the illustration, is next prepared, and one end of it is sewn to the heel, and the other end to the top part of the shoe's "upper." Pins stuck down the sides of the shoe where the eyelets should be, and black thread is crisscrossed from pinhead to pinhead until the shoe appears to be laced up. The pins that are to be used for sewing purposes, etc., are pressed into the soft padded part of the shoe, and when the ribbon is slung across the corner of the dressing table mirror, the pincushion is ready for use.

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