Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 300, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1910 — A CONVENIENT WORK BAG [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

A CONVENIENT WORK BAG

}lt Handy for Small Pieces of Fancy Work or for Undarned Stockings, This bag may be made of any site, !*o that it may be used for small pieces of fancy work or to hold several pairs of stockings that are waiting to be mended. ' l l ' or the foundation, a square cardboard box is used; the inside and out of the square bottom must both be covered with the material that is to be selected for the bag; it may be fixed in position by a little seccotine. The bag must be made just the jsize of the box and about twice as

deep as the width of one side. Turn down the top with a hem of one and one-half to two inches; extra mateTial must be allowed for the turning of this hem; run the hem twice so as to make a slide in which cord may be threaded to draw up bag. Don't sew up the bottom of the bag, but turn In the edges and sew it to the inside of the sides of box, the stitches can be taken through to the outside, as they will be covered. Now on the outside of box put a band of embroidered canvas, fancy ailfc pf velvet; It must be cut a trifle (wider than the depth of side and be Fewn in position top and bottom. The nds must be neatly joined together.