Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 177, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1916 — Needlework. [ARTICLE]

Needlework.

Quaint doll workbags have the ordinary round bottom of pasteboard, to which the bag is sewed in the usual way. Fastened to one side of the top, so as not to interfere with the drawing string, is the head of a doll dressed in a big bonnet and neckpiece made of the material of the bag. When finished the bag looks like a maiden of Civil war times; sometimes narrow pinked ruffles are added to the outside of the bag to increase the resemblance. Choose a dark, old-fashioned silk or . India print and make the bonnet in ; poke shape with long pointed lappets ; around the neck and falling halfway down the bag. A similar bag could be made from a gay bandana handkerchief with turbaned head of*a black doll. Put kerchief around the neck; at one side of the bag might be a checked apron.