Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 307, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1919 — BEADED BAG EASY TO MAKE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

BEADED BAG EASY TO MAKE

Popular Convenience Any Woman Handy With Needle Can Produce at Home. This bag is quite novel in shape and very easy to-make if instructiofls are carefully followed. To make: Cut out two pieces of satin to shape of diagram 1 and one piece sanie shape as diagram 2, always allowing sufficient satin for onehalf inch turnings, the size of the bag to be according to purpose it is required for. Now cut out another piece shape of design 2, only in fine

black muslin without turnings;, this place on wrong side of satin of same shape, and turn over and tack down turnings. The bag is lined with soft silk moire or crepe-de-chlne. Cut as in the satin two pieces of shape of diagram 1 and one piece shape of diagram No. 2, all with turnings. Join pieces of satin shape of diagram 1 together round edge, leaving top unsewn; repeat same with' silk, turn out satin and press, but leave silk wrong side; this place inside satin and tack round top to keep it in plaqe while gathering it. Take the lining for handle and turn in edges, and place wrong side to same of satin, -and slip-stitch everywhere except at bottom; place gathered part in between satin and lining, and regulate fullness. Beads of any kind and color may be used, jet or gold looking particularly well. Sew on at intervals round panel on top of gathers, and work design on front. The bottom is finished with a tassel made of the.same beads..

Home-Made Beaded Bag.