GIFTS FOR
A KNITTING BAG Wise girls are now taking time by the forelock and making Christmas gifts for their friends. Here is such an easily-made knitting bag to hold your work and needles when idle, and when in use to keep your wool clean and prevent it from rolling continually on the floor. Get a pretty piece of material —cretonne would do, but a plain linen-finished material with just a tiny pattern looks best. Make an ordinary roomy bag with it, and a slot at the neck wide enough for two ribbons, or cords, to
be run through it, one pulling through at either end. By this means the bag is drawn up by merely pulling each loop, and as easily opened out.' Last of all, cut a rather small hole in the middle of one side of the bag, and buttonhole all round it in a much wider circle, keeping your stitches very close together round the hole to quite cover the raw edges. Tho end of the wool is drawn through this hole before beginning each new ball, and the bag hangs comfortably from the arm while working.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21972, 1 December 1934, Page 4 (Supplement)
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