For Busy Fingers

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22320, 18 January 1936, Page 4 (Supplement)

For Busy Fingers

fPU i A Toilet Jacket

'J 1 HIS pull-over answers a dual purpose ; it can be worn for a " sham-poo-without-tears " at home, or as a protector from creams and lotions. Terry towelling with a gay coloured check design is the material used, and the measurements are 19 inches wide by 40 inches long (from back to front hem). Matching wool is used for decorative edges. Fold material in half, lengthways, cut a 6in. slit at centre front for neck opening; slightly shape centre back of neck. Hem all round neck, revers, sides and lower edges. Now work over the hems in the following way: First row: Blanket stitches about half-inch apart. Second row: Three treble crochet into hole of blanket-st. One double crochet into blanket-st., repeat all round hems. Crochet two lengths of chain, about 36 inches long, and thread each one corset-lace style at sides, leaving an opening of nine inches from shoulder for the armhole, and a four-inch opening at lower edge for freedom of movement. Crochet another chain of 12 inches for neck-bow. The two medallions on the revers are made by forming 10 chain into a DOLL'S HOUSE LAMPS

/C 3 Delightful little toy lamps for your doll's bouse can be made if you collect a few acorns and an emply cotton reel. For the ball lautern remove the little cup from 0110 acorn and glue it firmly to the top of your reel, as at C. Now cut a strip of rod or pink paper the width of the reel and paint on some black lines to look like the bars of a lantern. Gum the paper round the reel Fix a bent pin in the top of the acorn cup and attach a length of thread to the pin by which to hang up the lantern. For the wee reading lamp, take a sheet of notepapcr and draw out a diagram, as at E. Cut out this shape, and bend round to form the shape of a shade, and fixing the edges together with gum where you see it marked in the picture. This forms the electric light shade. Gum the inside of an acorn cup and push the small end of the shade into it. Then gum the top of the acorn and push into the inside of the shade, as at F. Make a hole in the top of the acorn cup and insert one end of a piece of flower wire (or a fringe hairpin) and bend it to the shape

hole, and filling it up with treble-sts. There are six smaller medallions for chain-lengths at neck and sides, made in the same way but with six chain to the hole and double crochet instead of treble filling. Sew them to chain and revers (stitching the latter right through double material, to keep the revers in place.) Press on the wrong side with -a warm iron and a damp cloth. A TOY AE To make this novel little aeroplane, you require an ordinary wooden clothespeg with a knobbed top. Carefully split the peg from between the prongs almost to the head. Take a piece of card about one inch and a half and six inches long, and insert it into the slot in the peg for the wings. With your paints, colour circles at either 13, _

w . B end in bright red and blue, as in Now take another piece of card an make the propeller. Fold your card in C, and pin to the end of the kno of peg. Hold the peg by the prongs, and throw into the air, making .V our aeroplane glide through the air.

at G. Insert the lower end of the w into a matchbox, which forms a sta for the lamp. .With your paint CO , tho shade bright green, and the sta may also bo the same pretty colour.