Stocking Holder with Six Compartments

New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume 95, Issue 3, 16 September 1957, Page 320

Stocking Holder with Six Compartments

THE stocking holder illustrated may be made easily from plastic film, cottonwool, and waste scraps of fabric. The materials required are two pieces of fabric, each 15in. x lOjin., for the cover; cottonwool; plastic film about 60in. x 12in.; and 2 dome fasteners. To Make up The cover: Sew the two pieces of fabric together as in Fig. 1, allowing gin. seams. Turn inside out

and press flat. Fill with a layer of cottonwool, close the opening with neat stitches, and secure the cottonwool in place with lines of machine stitching as shown in the illustration at upper right. The plastic holder: Sew the two 12in. sides of the plastic film together and bind the long sides with bias , bind-

ing as in Fig. 2. Mark the long sides into lOin. spaces from the joining seam (Fig. 2) and with a few overcasting stitches join A to A, B to B, C to C, and D to D. Fold the plastic film as in Fig. 3 and place on the prepared cover. Attach the cover to the holder with a line of stitching EF as in Fig. 3.

Join G to G with a few overcasting stitches and sew on dome fasteners as indicated.

—MOLLY MACPHERSON,

formerly Field Officer in Rural Sociology, Department of Agriculture, Auckland