On the next page is a picture of the hair-pin holder when finished; and above it you will find a diagram of it when cut out and not yet put in shape. It is cut, as you will observe, in one piece. The material is perforated card-board, either white or "silver." The dotted lines show where to fold it. A, A and B, B are lapped outside the end pieces, D, D, and held in place by stitches of worsted, long below and very short above, where the sides join. A little border is worked in worsted at top and bottom before the sides are joined. The inside is stuffed with curled hair, and topped with a little cover crocheted or knit in worsted--plain ribbing or the tufted crochet, just as you prefer. A cord and a small worsted tassel at either end complete it, and it is a convenient little thing to hang or stand on mamma's or sister's toilet-table. It will be an easy matter to enlarge the pattern, if this hair-pin holder would be too small. [Illustration: PATTERN OF HAIR-PIN HOLDER.] [Illustration: A HAIR-PIN HOLDER.] [Illustration: END OF HAIR-PIN HOLDER WHEN FOLDED.] A CRIB-BLANKET FOR BABY. The prettiest and simplest crib-blanket which we have seen of late, was made of thick white flannel, a yard wide, and a yard and a quarter long. Across each end were basted two rows of scarlet worsted braid, four inches apart, and between the two a row of bright yellow braid. These were cat-stitched down on both edges with black worsted, and between them were rows of feather-stitching in blue. Above, in each corner, was a small wheel made of rows of feather-stitch--black, red, yellow and blue. Nothing could be easier to make, but the effect was extremely gay and bright, and we advise some of you who are lucky enough to "belong to a baby" to try it. ANOTHER BABY'S BLANKET. For this you must buy a real blanket--one of the small ones which come for use in a baby's crib. Those with blue stripes and a narrow binding of blue silk are prettiest for the purpose. Baste a narrow strip of canvas between the stripes and the binding, and with blue saddler's silk doubled, work in cross-stitch a motto, so arranged that it can be read when the top of the blanket is folded back. If the stripe is red instead of blue, the motto must be in red silk, and it should, of course, have reference to the baby. Here are some pretty ones in various languages: "_Nun guten ruh, die augen zu_" (Now go to sleep, and shut your eyes). "_Cap-a-pie_" (From head to foot). "_Ad ogni ucello, suo nido e bello_" (To every bird its own nest is beautiful). And here is one in English: "Shut little eyes, and shut in the blue; Sleep, little baby, God loves you." The same idea can be beautifully applied to a pair of large blankets, but this is rather a considerable gift for young people to undertake. SUMMER BLANKETS.