SILK EMBROIDERED BIRTHDAY CARDS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19721, 11 December 1926, Page 24 (Supplement)

SILK EMBROIDERED BIRTHDAY CARDS

A NOVELTY FOB WENDY LADIES Embroidered pictures make very nice birthday cards, and I know you will enjoy making them. Cut out of a catalogue, or magazine, a nice, simple flower with a good clear outline. Put an ordinary white postcard on a drawing board or magazine, and fix the cut-out flower securely to the postcard with drawing-pins. Take a sharp hat-pin. and prick holes at even distances all along the outline of the flower. Now take up the card, and, with a needle and a strand of fine, coloured

silk, work through the holes, finishing off on the wrong side. The stem of i , the flower should be green. Write the name of your friend in I : pencil, prick through this, rub out the pencil marks, and then work in the name with. silk. Everyone will be pleased with these : original birthday greeting cards. And ! why not start making some now ready for Christmas? OCEAN GIFTS The noblest song is a stehdy breeze To the tunc of the flood-tide strong, With a press o’ sail on the bending mast And the good ship carrying on. The grandest call is the call of the sea To the restless soul of a man; He finds his own ’neath the silent stars — In the typhoon’s hate, ’midst crashing spars. The finest end, when your sand has run, Is to sleep in the silent deep, With the seas you loved above your head And the old lost ships at your feet.