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The Workbasket Vol. 17 No. 8

I-WB178 The Workbasket Vol. 17 No. 8 – May 1952
Crochet projects include a Star Flower doily. a vanity set, powder puff set, baby shoulderette and 2 motifs: a rose and a square. To tat are cluster earrings. To knit is a pillow inset where the skirt is knitted and the rest is embroidered. Have you every wanted to make a sofa pillow out of ties? Creative women make income on baking Happy Hat cakes and selling reused spice jars decorated as salt and pepper shakers. Recipes include pineapple cookies and a variety of icings. Aunt Ellen talks of studying the stars. The garden expert covers ridding worms, cyclamen mites, thrips, mildew, leafdrop, soft scale, and sowbugs. How to take care and grow your Christmas Cactus is covered. It’s time to raid our button jars as Mrs. Carrie Baer shows us how to turn buttons into Earrings, cuff links, stick pins, rings, and chokers. The book reviewed this month, named “The Button Sampler”, is timely with Mrs. Baer’s projects, covering types, history, and terminology of buttons. Read the book to find out what Goofies are.
Stapled softcover, 48 pages. Scanned 400dpi bitmap.
From the collection of Sarah Dalton, scanned by Seya Wijnsma-Spek, edited by Linda M. Mays. Published with kind permission of F+W Media, the current copyright holder.

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