Christmas Pie

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 48, 19 November 1932, Page 19

Christmas Pie

Three “plums” to-day! The first is a sweet little picture of “Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary” to copy or trace on the greeting cards you are going to make all by yourselves this Christmas. That nursery rhyme would be a good motto for our Garden Corner, wouldn’t it? The second “plum” is a most original idea for a delightful and inexpensive gifts. Have you ever thought of preserving flowers? This can be done by treating each petal with a . solution of gum

arabic dissolved This mixture consistency o f Almost any may be treated

in rose water, are really best, should have the cream.

single varieties Iceland poppies marigolds, nastur-

flowers and leaves with this, but the for e x a mp 1 e, tiurns or Virginia

creeper. To apply the soflower or leaf and tween your thumb solution until all

lution take each gently twirl it beand finger in the the bloom Is cov-

ered: treat the the same way, so completely a i rthis, lay it on a

stalk in exactly as to render it tight. Having done sieve to dry.

When applying the- solution to leaves, a camel hair brush should be used. This is far better than just dipping them into the solution. Then when the flowers are quite dry they can be packed away into little boxes, and be sent off to friends. as Christmas presents. They will, yoii will find, be much appreciated. And, third “plum” direction, sent by “Blossom Fairy,” Napier, for making a pretty knitted dress for a doll 17 inches high. Wouldn’t this be. a good idea for small sisters present? Alter the length and number of stitches if the particular doll for which you are making the dress is taller or shorter than 17 inches. Get 2 skeins 4-ply wool and 1 pair No. S needles. Gast on 5 stitches, knit 6 rows moss stitch, i.e., 1 plain 1 purl, next row alternately, 1 purl 1 plain. Knit 14 rows stocking stitch, i.e., 1 row plain, next row purl, next plain, and so on. Then take in every other row till you have 35 stitches. K. 8 rows. Next row holes for threading at waist. K. 6 wool over needle, k. 2 together, k. 6, then another hole, and. so on to end. K. 19 rows stocking stitch. K. 12 stitches, cast off 11 and k. 12. Slip first 12 on to safety pin and k. other 12 stitched for shoulder 12 rows, slip on to safety, pin and take 12 from other pin': on to needles and k. to match. Cast on 11 stitches and take up stitches from other shoulder, making 35 again. K. 19 rows, make holes as before, k. 8 rows, then increase every other row, till there are 50 stitches again. K. 14 rows and 6 rows moss stitch and cast off. Sleeve: Pick up 8 shoulder stitches, k. 9 rows, then take in every other row 3 times. K. 6 rows moss stitch and! cast off. Do the same for the other sleeve, then press with a warm iron under a damp cloth and sew up. There is a fourth plum, but it escaped from the pie and is somewhere else in the page.