WAYS WITH CAMP STOOL FRAMES

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 866, 9 January 1930, Page 5

WAYS WITH CAMP STOOL FRAMES

FOLDING WORK-BAGS AND TRAY-TABLES Ordinary wooden camp stool frames may be used to form the bases of several little home necessities whictr will then cost a tithe of shop prices. A convenient folding workbag. for instance, can quickly be evolved out of a yard of cretonne and the frame of a shilling camp stool, though the finished article could not be obtained under five or six shillings if purchased ready made. Fashion the workbag from the cretonne, arranging a casing all round the top edge, through which an elastic may be threaded. Paint the wooden stool frame to match one of the tints in the cretonne, and fasten the bag to the crossbars when the enamel is quite dry, using brass-lieaded nails for the purpose. Allow about a quarter of a yard of the elastic each side between the bars, so that the bag can be kept open when it is wanted. When the needlework is finished it may be stored in tlie bag, which is folded and placed out of the way until required again. A useful tray, table for the nursery may also be fashioned with the aid of a camp stool frame, which should be enamelled pink or blue. Loops of wide linen tape across the bars will serve to keep them apart, and a small wooden tray can he laid across the trestles to hold soap dish, powder and puff, safety pins, and so on. Two bags of pretty printed sateen or cotton might he made and hung under the tray, one each side of the trestles, to take brush, comb, underclothes, etc. The whole thing will take up hardly any room when the bath hour is over, as it will fold away into quite a small space. A TIME-SAVING TIP A clothes-peg bag which hangs on the line, and can be pushed along it, as you move, saves a lot of time. Make it from striped hammock chaircanvas or of bed-ticking. Suspend the bag from a thick wire, bent up at each end into a hook, or from a child’s coat-hanger. The front half should be sloped down in a deep curve, so that you will be able to get the pegs out easily.