Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 250, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1916 — NEEDLEWORK. [ARTICLE]

NEEDLEWORK.

A pattern pocket will be found a great convenience. Take a strip of plain cloth of the required length and make on it as many pockets as there ".re members of the family. Outline an initial on each pocket and hang in a ennvenientpjace near your sewing table. Much time will be saved in searching for any particular pattern. Half the disparagement of needles is due to using those unsuited in number to the silk or cotton. Try to draw a coarre thread through a fine eye and the thread splits and knots, besides not sewing smoothly. Use crewel needles—which come in all sizes and lengths for embroidering. If nervous, never use too coarse a needle, as it pushes badly and constantly comes unthreaded. Instead of putting buttons on pillow cases in the usual way the Germans follow this method: They make three buttonholes in both the hems of the case, then on a broad piece of liner tape they sew buttons, hemming both ends of the tape. To fasten you simply pass the buttons through the notes from the under side of the hem first, and so to the upper one. When the case is sent to the wash the tape is removed and kept until required.