The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX, No. 1018, July 1, 1899 — John Shaqi
The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX, No. 1018, July 1, 1899Various
General
The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX, No. 1018, July 1, 1899
Various
Children's literature -- Periodicals
MARGUERITE.—We believe that New Zealand would be a good place for a
working-class family or a young man or woman to emigrate to, provided
they were capable and thrifty. There are a great many emigration
societies from which you can obtain information. Apply to the Self-Help
Emigration Society, address Secretary, Memorial Hall Buildings,
Farringdon Street, E.C.; and to the Agent-General for New Zealand, 13,
Victoria Street, London, S.W. Thanks for your information.
DAINTY SCENT SACHET IN SATIN.
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The pretty article here illustrated is no sooner seen than coveted by
most of the fair sex, either for their own use or as a tiny present for
a friend. White satin of good quality is used for the front of the bag,
which is further adorned with a delicate spray of ribbon embroidery
arranged in the form of a slightly oblong wreath lightly outlined,
around which diminutive flowers and leaves are placed. Pale blue,
yellow, or green pongee silk is suitable for the back of bag, which is
added when the embroidery has been completed, previous to being filled
with wadding containing scent powder, and being closed with strings of
the delicate ribbon used for the embroidery.
_Materials required._—White satin, pongee silk, each four inches wide
and six inches long, three layers of wadding same size, pot pourri or
other scent powder, half a yard each of cornflour blue, yellow and
leaf-green ribbon, such as is used for ribbon embroidery. A thread of
green filoselle is used for the tiny stems and to outline the wreath,
which should be worked first.
The design consists of this wreath and two groups of flowers
interspersed with green leaves and coloured buds. A pleasing variety
may be produced by using green chenille instead of ribbon for some
of the leaves. If any reader should find difficulty in copying this
particular design, she may substitute any small spray and work it in
any kind of embroidery which she finds easier and thinks suitable. The
effect of the whole chiefly depends upon delicacy of colour, design and
workmanship of whatever kind introduced, and the idea affords scope for
endless individual taste and variety.
The ornamentation should not extend more than two inches from the
lower edge of the satin, so as to escape the gatherings by which the
bag is closed at the top. The simplest way to carry out our design is
to copy the wreath’s outline upon the satin with a lead pencil and to
work in the flowers and leaves afterwards from the illustration. It
is really quite easy to do so in the case of such a tiny spray, and
first attempts may be made by drawing it on paper until satisfied that
the arrangement has been satisfactorily copied. After that the attempt
should be made upon the satin with or without pencil tracing, according
the worker’s ability.
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