Embroidery Transfer Tips And A Maine Bear Tale
A sewing guide explains how to transfer designs using impression paper and pencils, detailing full and partial transfer methods. The piece also recounts a Maine river encounter with a bear catching and sharing salmon with cubs, ending with a quiet retreat into the forest.
Four trees hide billboard in Brighton street scene
In a back street near the Dyke road four small trees were planted by the municipality to conceal an advertising boarding put up by the rail line. The trees, planted after the company refused, now nearly obscure the unsightly view of a wooded cutting.
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Brighton
Dyke Road
Decorating Homes With Stencil Designs for Summer Rooms
A guide to stencil decorating for summer homes describes a grape motif using madder lake and cobalt blue with green accents. It covers color harmonies for curtains, hems, draperies, and rugs, plus step by step stencil making from cardboard, transfer, cutting, and painting with careful drying and blotting to avoid smearing.
Literary Geo game spurs lively village entertainment
A hostess devised a pad and pen ceil game named Literary Geo for a party of mixed ages. It centered on questions about history, fiction, and legend with blank spaces for answers, rewarding a traveler with the most complete list after an hour of discovery.
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Xanadu
Coleridge
Miss Hunter's Correspondence ShirtWaist Case
A travel ready shirt waist case for summer trips. Made from white duck or linen with a full envelope style flap that buttons closed. Embroidered initials or the word Waists center the flap with a possible flower design.
Towel rack and daisy filet lace frame craft patterns
Mrs A J A designs a yellow chrysanthemum tinted towel rack with a brass bar and supports while a daisy filet lace frame showcases a six sided wire frame with white tassel accents. The note adds caution about not sharing names or addresses through the paper and promises future patterns.
Cap strings for caps with easy removable fixtures
Mrs M T B explains several sets of cap strings to fit one cap, since caps soil quickly. They attach with small pins instead of being sewn each time. Soft lawn is suitable, with hemstitching and feather stitching or padded dots and tiny flowers to finish the ends.
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