A POT POURRI BAG.

Waikato Times, Volume 118, Issue 19765, 21 December 1935, Page 26 (Supplement)

A POT POURRI BAG.

When hard up for an idea for a simple Christmas gift for the woman who seems “to have everything,” it is quite an inspiration to think of pot pourri bags of rose-coloured muslin, georgette, or flowered voile, for every woman likes pot pourri, to put among her lingerie or laces and impart a delicate fragrance. It would be a good idea where a woman has many friends to whom she wants to give small presents, to make half a-dozen pot-pourri bags straight away, in advance of the Christmas rush and have them all ready for filling before the llth hour. Pot pourri can be bought all the year round from large stores or chemists’ shops, and

if properly prepared lasts fragrant for months. Thinking ahead saves time and trouble- A bag for pot pourri can be ’cut large or small, of course. A man’s handkerchief is a fair size to be taken as <a guide. In making a bag, turn down the edge to -Shout onethird of the depth of the whole; or sew muslin of a different colour along the top of the bag, and turn down the third. Run a silk thread all around the hag, where you turned the top down and draw it up loosely so that a hag is formed afterwards filling the bag with pot pourri and drawing up the thread tightly, and twisting it round prettily with half a yard of coloured ribbon. Then the bag Is completed.