MADE FROM UNBLEACHED CALICO

Evening Star, Issue 20138, 1 April 1929, Page 11

MADE FROM UNBLEACHED CALICO

GOOD “ SELLING LINES " FOR BAZAARS For household use, for practical gifts, or for quick and certain sale at bazaars and fancy fairs, there is no end to the things which may he made. Irom unbleached calico and mu-din. J have even seen charming curtains made o) these materials. Take the very cheapest, soltcst make of unbleached calico; give it a good boiling in soapsuds to take out the dressing, well rinse and press it, and make it into sets of dusters and cleaning cloths. Obtain some last coloured embroidery thread in various bright shades—scarlet and red, bronze and gold, orange and black, mauve and green—and, with running stitch or herringbone, hern the edges all round, adding a crochet loop at one corner of each cloth. Sots of clusters for very special purposes—cleaning mirrors, dusting good china, etc. —may be made Irom hue unbleached cheese doth. A muslin bag to hold half a dozen of those should have tho words Soft Dusters bodly embroidered in chain stitch in colours to match the sewing thread. The widest variety of cheap, unbleached calico, after being boiled in soapsuds, rinsed and pressed, may lie made into dust sheets for covering beds and furniture on cleaning days. Hem I hem by machine and work the words Dust Sheet on each in bold lettering, using coarso coloured cotton or wool. This" little embellishment will cause them to sell well at a bazaar, or will make of them a useful present for a gir just setting up house. Covers to fit over the blanket or tho ironing board may bo from best quality unbleached calico. They should fasten at the wide end of tho board with strong snap fasteners, so that Lfiey can be taken off and wasneci. Sots of six square iron and saucepan holders each with a cross-stitched initial in the centre, are- other useful “ lines ” which can be fashioned from the coarsest make of calico. Last, but not least, quaint aprons may be made from this material. The aprons must bo wide and practical, with pockets which form the decorative note.