QUAINT GIFTS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 15, 15 December 1937, Page 29

QUAINT GIFTS.

MINIATURE SATCHELS. EASY TO MAKE. (Copyright.) Wee satchels for darning accessories are fascinating little utilitarian trinkets. They are simple to make. The material for satchels is felt or some textile that does not fray, such as broadcloth. However, the felt bags hold their shape better than less heavy goods. The best bags are of velvet lined with silk. In every instance each bag is made of a circle of material three or three and one-half inches in diameter. This circle is doubled to give the satchel contour, v The simplest of these darning silk satchels is fitted with two spools of silk suspended by a double strand of crochet silk run through the holes in

the spools and fastened to the top of the bag where the handles also are iastened. Each handle is a twist of the crochet silk which forms a loop by fastening ends to the top of the bag with a space approximately one and one-quarter inches intervening between points where ends are sewed through the satchel. A darning needle is run through the silk on one of the spools. Sew half a snap fastener between handles on each inner side of the bag to keep it from opening when not in use,. The handsomest of these miniature satchels lias a strip of flannel sewn to the bottom of the bag. This forms a needle case in which are two or three needles. On each side are three coils of darning silk held in place by running ends under stitches of the crochet silk. A wee pocket holds a thimble. In the unlined felt satchels the thimble is omitted. Since the stitches holding the darning coils in position show on the outside, two extra rows of stitches each side of these form decorative lines.