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instance.. Or contrasting colour bordâ€" ers of plain material attached by means of heavy rickâ€"rack braid making an open work joining of in srest where the hemâ€"stitching might have been. For a provincial room we‘ve seen sheets and cases embroidered with sprightly little peasant figures too. But maybe the cutest of all were fine white percale sheets embroidered in wistful blu, the design being a pair of very modern litâ€" tle angels fourishing a banner saving "goodâ€"night." When we think of making something of course we are bound to revert to needlepoint sooner or later, so we may as well bring it up rizsht here and now. Take a Tip From History If you‘re looking for an idea that‘s really regal. consider getiing a beautiâ€" ful monogram design for your lady‘s initial and putting it on a fine piece of household linen. We recently saw vhe most thrilling exhibition of monoâ€" grams belonging to famous psople of history. There were Queen Victoria‘s, Napoleon‘s, DuBarry‘s, Marioa An oinâ€" ette, Queen Isabella‘s and a host of others, simply exquisite in desisgn and grace. Why couldn‘t you take on> of these for a and adapt ccher initials to it? You‘ll fird ‘hat it will take quite some digging into books at noutrs wiln and chnread, pasteâ€"pot and scissors, crochet hook or hanks of soft fine yearns get us off in the right mood, because we love to make things and we hope we‘ll never grow so rich or busy that we can‘s make some of the presents we give each year. By the time we‘ve turned cut a few little reâ€" membrances under our own stcam. we‘re usually so carried away with the holiday idea that we shop right up to Chrismas eve afternoon picking up exâ€" tra bits of cheer for prople we know and like, But about things to makeâ€"this is the time to think of them, and so today we‘re going o sugzest some ideas we‘ve been hoardingâ€"not the obvious sweatâ€" erâ€"forâ€"dad, socks for brother type of gift. Rather we are concerntrating on little gifts to make for a lady with a house, a smart upâ€"toâ€"theâ€"minute lady whose home is her castle and to her a gift that will help make her home more graciously appoinsced will be the nicest thing sh> could get. To begin hours with and scissor Ho hum . . . we‘re rathéer put upon abow. early in the gam>» and akogether too much trt worry, by the cime the around we‘ll be as excit est member of the fam thusiasm grows as w bustle of preparation. Individual Monogramsâ€"A Fanâ€"Shaped Afgshanâ€"New Table Linensâ€"and a Host of Other Exciting Ideas are Suggested for Christmas Gifts That yvou Can Make Yourself URSDAY. DECEMBER 15TH, 1938 aybe these three that we‘re ng today will be suizlable as a You‘ll have to have an artistic ‘ a professional monogram deâ€" make the pattern if you‘re not that son. of thing yourself. Or ome art student at high school 2o interested in working out a lHere are some individual ways of marking linen for special gifts. At the top are two little modern angeis waving a good night banner and embroiâ€" dered in a wistful blue on white percale sheets. sprigged ve shop noon pi( or pz°op ub pillow cases le borders, for colour bordâ€" year. By th few little re own stcan away with th p right up t L¢ cCoOm efi Un PLEASANT HOMES as gay as any.hing for a i@ady s Pictures can also be framed to advantâ€" age with wall paper . . . using an inâ€" ceresting paitern for the mat and a border for the frame. having a piece of glass cut to go over the whole busiâ€" ness and screwed through to the back. Take a set of fiveâ€"andâ€"*ten trays, paste you can make w boxes. bureau box very much excite the spool cotton « the table. There‘ thinking of made rion set diagonally has a very new And of course the doilie and mat set cidental but usefu small "muffs" tha better tha able to n One of our i of needlework i we‘re jus because â€" afgan pa shape of terns in ed@ges fIor ca to make the ning afgan | CImMiIir s cushion l0ts of | is somet inbitiou For chat‘s the handwork of queens and we always fancy that we look veory fetching as we sit on our sofa and work on a dainty piece. In addition to the many very new designs in needleâ€" point for use in rooms of today, thers are some pleasant litole gift idsas in needlepoint that you‘ll have time to finish for Christmas. Books covers, for instancse, always anpeal to us and weo‘ve no timt mM Te by Elizabeth MacRea Boykin small things in needlepoint don‘t take long to make, so there is still time Letween now and Christmas to start and finish them. The book cover is a thoughtful idea so is the book mark 11 T WIT ins wit rch v4 Fan Afgan 11 11 Below the three monograms are those belonging respectively to DuBarry, Louis Phillipe and Queen Iscabella. These designs suggest beautiful designs to base other modern monograms on. medaliions small flow ut and ind ory lLl er patâ€" tras«.in© ogethe;r ‘ Kings mayvbe Motr id up LV LY The Good Earth Love me, love my gardenâ€"any lady who fusses around in her garden will be glad to tell you that a smock that opens down the fron is of no earthly use ‘to ‘her . . .‘ we take it back, it is of earchly use for the good earth smudges itself through the open front. ed border, then a good coat of waterâ€" proof shellacâ€"and you have a gift that many a housewife will bless you for. 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