Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1911 — PINCUSHIONS OF ALL SORTS [ARTICLE]

PINCUSHIONS OF ALL SORTS

Dainty Little Affairs, of Still Daintier Materials, Are Popular Just Now. Dainty little affairs of scrim, with two lovely wreaths and a circlet of forget-me-nots, or an old-fashioned cluster of roses, or a quaint, stiff row of tulips or scarlet sage. —— — Hand-painted cushions, the roses or violets painted on drawnwork, right across the open stitches, on to the satin lining below. Chiffon over net, the two held to

gather by a latticework of baby ribbon. These are especially pretty Tn—three harmonizing shades of the same color. Crosswork and beading on canvas, perhaps a flower basket of crosswork in gold thread and then little ribbon flowers, each with a gold bead at its center, or the flowers worked out in crosswork in the natural coiwfo and a square of gold beads all around the cushion. Dyed lace over white silk, the lace held down by tiny beads of white. Sometimes there Is a light-colored lace over black and the beads are of jet Odd little cushions, the under part of stuffed silk, the upper—no pins, please -rr* circle of little figures in outline under glass, and a round wooden frame fitting tightly over the real cushion beneath.