USE FOR WOOL ODDMENTS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 9 May 1925, Page 15

USE FOR WOOL ODDMENTS.

The craze for knitting and crocheting jumper's ha.s left behind a number of odd pieces of wools and silks which can be used up in many delightful ways. There are little woolly coats, for the breakfast egg. These may be crocheted as three triangles, in woo-l of one colour, and joined and embroidered with stitches in another colour. They leave mulch, scope for originality ancl ingenuity, and make inexpensive but very acceptable gifts in sets of half-a-dozen.

Bedroom slippers for the babes are charming embroidered with manycoloured wools, and so are blottingcases, black hopsaek cushions for the study and '.serviceable shopping bags. Coloured net curtains with a border in bright wools or silks have an unusually pretty effect; and very attractive table mats can be made of coarse curtain net edged va;nd darned with wools in many colours to. form flowers or a design. But the most fascinating work of all is making mascots which can be put to a variety of uses. They are easy and entertaining to make. . A. little man may be fashioned out of brown wool. The body is made by winding the wool ten or twelve times over three fingers. Yellow silk is used for binding his neck and waist and wrists. The loop of wool which have been cut at one end are parted and bound with green and finished with a jaunty little feather. The mouth is red, and the whites of his eyes tfsr© indicated with cream silk thread. Pink wool may lie used to make a little lady with her logs bound in reel. She might wear a yellow crochet skirt and tam-o’-shanter, with a green silk sash and pompom. Small, black beads can form the eyes, and a. tiny red rosebud of a mouth may be made with, red silk. Both mascots should be mounted on corks by a fine piece of wire which runs up inside one leg and through the body.

No two mascots' should be alike if they are to bring luck to their owner. They may be used to decorate pincushions, powder puffs, and scent sachets, to ornament a menu card, or suspended from a double chain of crochet finished off with heads they make uncommon book markers.