Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1911 — For Sewing Room. [ARTICLE]

For Sewing Room.

With the new net scarfs an applique of small velvet flowers is very pretty. They are both in terracotta, the flowers in a border, narrow at the •ides and wide at the ends. In padding a button-hole edge or a design for solid embroidery, the white padding shows through the color that is afterward stitched under it in many eases. This is especially disagreeable in & dark shade. The problem has been solved by doing the padding in cotton as near the shade of the silk as possible. The result is satisfactory and is not extravagant when it is considered that cotton costs only a few cents a spool. , A sharpened-down orange-wood stick is a good piercer for embroidery. •This makes a nice, clean hole and does not tear the material. Many needle-workers prefer the orange-wood •ticks to the, steel or ivory implements.