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Evening Star, Issue 22721, 7 August 1937, Page 8

'By Handicraft A Little Dutch Mill Novel Holder for Match Boxes This meek “Handicraft" tells J) ou horn to make a quaint Dutch windmill which will serve as an attractive holder for a hox of matches. Besides being a most useful article, the mill would be an interesting novelty for the mantelshelf. It would make an excellent gift to a friend. ON a 3Jin. x 21n. piece of three-ply or Jin. wood, arrange the same number of Jin, graph lines that appear in Pig. 1. Then you will find It easy tc draw with pencil the outline of the windmill front on the three-ply, or you can trace on the outline straight from Pig. 1, which is the correct size. i A fretwork saw or sharp knife can be used to cut out the shape, after which it should be neatly finished off with sandpaper. You can make the base from Jin. pine, according to the measurements given in Pig. 2, and on to this part the block measuring IJln. x Jin. x lin. to hold the matchbox can be fixed In the position SQUARES 3 [] a Z (?) DRAWING OF WINDMILL FRONT shown. A Jin, screw, driven up through the base, or a little seccotine, Is sufficient to hold it to the baseboard, . . . The windmill front should be securely fixed to the base with seccotine and two small brads. Leave Jin. space between the holder block of wood and the windmill front. Do not handle the model until the seccotine has dried thoroughly. The sails are made with pieces of thin white cardboard, which are stuck with seccotine on to the blades of the wooden cross (Pig. 3). A Jin. roundheaded nickel-plated screw, or a brass-headed tack can be used to fix the completed sails in position after the model has been painted as described below. Now you can paint the model with lacquers or thick water-colours, but if water-colours are used it will be necessary when the colours are dry to brush over a coat of clear lacquer to make them permanent. .. ... Colour the baseboard and the holder dark brown, the lower part of the windmill bright green, the upper part red, the wooden blades brown, and toe sails are left white, with green lines painted on them, as shown in Pig. 5. MATCH /BOX SAILS / MOULDING WINDMILL FRONT STRIKER. WINDMILL MAO BOX HOLDER, h THICK f IsTkvaH A (2) BASE. AND BLOCK. FOR- HOLDERi/ HALVING, JOINT. TWO PIECES . , (5) WOODEN BLADES FOR. w SAILS —• T 1«0 1[ t, •l'£ I I -i-l * : (dotted lines indicate. POSITION OF WOODEN BLADES). 0 cmxam sails JUMPING FEAT PLACE a stick on the floor and stand just ld| front of It, feet together. Bend down and grasp your toes in your hands, with arms crossed. Then try to Jump over the stick. THE FLOATING NEEDLE. PLACE a small piece of blotting paper on soma water and gently place a needle on It. In a short time the blotting paper will soak and sink; leaving the needle floating on the surface of toe water. Gaily Coloured Peasant Apron Easy for Girls to Make To make the gay little apron illustrated here you require five strips of coloured Cesarine or similar fast-boiling material In shades of scarlet, green, yellow, royal blue, and black. rr»HE brighter the colours the more effective your iapron will look. Each strip of coloured material measures 36 Inches by 1J Inches. For the skirt you need a straight piece of unbleached calico measuring 36 inches by 12 Inches. The small bodice is made of similar material, and Is cut to the shape Illustrated, the base measuring 12 inches and the distance from the waist to the shoulder eight Inches. You will also need four strips of the same material each measuring 2 Inches by 12 Inches, two of which are used to Join the bodice to the skirt, and the other two to fasten across the back to the top of the bodice by means of two pearl buttons. The bodice is first bound round, except the base, with a length of scarlet bias binding, and a buttonhole is made in the top of each shoulder piece. To make the skirt, join the five coloured strips together, having the black at the bottom, then yellow, green, red, and blue, and press with a hot iron. Join the coloured strips to the skirt by sewing the base of the skirt and the black edge together, then turn on the right side and hem along the blue edge, which should be turned in neatly, and machine with blue cotton. Gather the top edge of the skirt until It measures 12 Inches. To Join the bodice to the skirt tack two pieces of calico measuring 2 inches by 12 Inches to either side of the gathered edge, and also to the bodice edge, and then machine along on the wrong side. Turn the work flat and neatly slip stitch the loose piece at the back of the bodice, thus eliminating all signs of machine stitching. Join toe two remaining pieces of calico to the sides of the pieces, Joining bodice and skirt and hem neatly. Sew a pearl button on either end of these two pieces and cross over and fasten to the shoulders, and you will have a gay little apron. • ML*/ ? " T *■ ' ’■‘f* * & An miH ISSSf! li* m.Kfr Hifi.i *T If