Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 268, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1917 — THIS PINCUSHION IS USEFUL [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THIS PINCUSHION IS USEFUL

It Also Makes a Dainty Decoration te Be Suspended From the Dress- , _ . , 4 • Ing Table. The pincushion in the sketch makes a dainty decoration suspended from the dressing table, and will be found useful, for it holds pins and needles of all sizes, and also has a ring for safety pins. Make a little bag of white sateen and fill it with sawdust or bran. Use a piece of material thqt measures 6 by 5 inches. Now cover this bag with a remnant of prefjy silk; a piece of ribbon will do

equally well, providing it is wide enough. _ f Find the exact center df this pad, then take a prettily colored narrow ribbon, and bind it round the center as in sketch. Secure this band «et the back of the pad with a stitch. t Now, with a piece of the same robbon 6 inches in length, make a loop to hang the cushion up by. Sew to the top of the pad; at the bottom of the pad sew another similar loop, but first of all thread on to it a bone ring. The dainty article is now finished. It only remains to stick pins of assorted sizes on the pad and to fasten several safety pins on the bone ring.

A Novel pincushion.