Some Uses for Sale Remnants.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXVII, Issue 22, 1 December 1906, Page 41

Some Uses for Sale Remnants.

DAINTY BOXES OF CHINTZ AND CRETONNE. Remnants of pretty chintzes and cretonnes form an irresistible temptation to the woman who is making a tour of the sales at the present moment, ami many and various are the uses to which they may be put in making useful and drainty articles. A cardboard box. covered with a rosepatterned chintz, which forms an ideal receptacle for hatpins and gloves, represents one of the many easy and s'mple schemes which may be evolved at the cost of a few pence. The box and lid should be treated separately, each side being carefully measured off and the material cut out double, so as to provide for the lining as well as the covering. It must then be sewn together on the wrong side by machine, then reversed and fitted on to the cardboard. The lid should lie sewn to the box last of all by close even stitches, but care must be taken not to draw them too tight or the box will not open well. The inside of the lid should be padded with a little quilted silk, which provides an excellent holder for hatpins of all sizes. Another use for a remnant of floralpatterned chintz may be found in the manufacture of candle-shades, the bases of which consist of white calico. A disused shade should be used as the pattern by which to cut out the foundation, which is then covered with a pretty pattern of trails of rose or other flowers which are cut out of any odd piece of flowered ehintz and sewn by minute stitches to the ' calico. The grouping of the flowers is left to the ingenuity of the worker, who may embroider dots in coarse cotton at irregular intervals or introduce bands of green silk ribbon in hitfee fashion over and under the rose garlands, fasteninging these to the groundwork by as small and invisible stitches as possible. The upper edges are outlined with the ribbon, and the lower border is fin shed in the same manner.