DOOR-WEIGHT.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XIII, Issue XVIII, 3 November 1894, Page 430

DOOR-WEIGHT.

IRLS continually complain that pretty fanciful arf ''j tides are so expensive to / \ / make. So they are if / A .1 I everything is bought fresh I r r ir l . each t ’ me a new ’’“derI F/ \ taking is started. DomesV ~ Nkx 'x tic eeon °my can be prac | — -» tised in a variety of ways / i i \\ ) besides ‘keepingdown’ the | ./ fr butcher’s bill. There is no doubt that a very great deal of money is wasted over fancy work, although not to the extent it used to be when every woman thought it incumbent on themselves to hold some kind of stitchery between their fingers at any rate during the early hours of the day. The art of using up odds and ends is very useful ; it is by no means to be compared with the mania for storing them up, which is a much more common faculty, and one which requires putting down with a strong hand. If you can’t use them up yourself give them to some one who can. My first suggestion is for covering a door-weight. The sides, ends, and handle of this basket-like shaped

piece of furniture are decorated with what is known as * crazy ’ patchwork, so named, I suppose, owing to the erratic combinations. Here is a bit of velvet, here a scrap

of brocade, now we come across a piece of Indian embroidery or quaintly-coloured cretonne, all joined together with feather stitching. For this some people use all one coloured silk—old gold, for instance —and others as many different shades as can be found in the patchwork itself. The top can be of any plain piece of mateiial, and it should be neatly finished off with a cord. The weights for the inside can be procured from any ironmonger. I knew a girl once who covered a cushion in this fashion with bits from every dress she had had, and she used to say it was as good to her as a diary !