MUFFS AND CAPS AND PRETTIEST TRAPS
[Illustration: “It means ‛au revoir,’ but not good-bye”]
“THIS letter says,” explained Mary Frances, “this letter says, oh,
Thimble Friends, that my mother and father are coming home in two
weeks,―and Billy, too. I must hurry to finish my lessons. Oh,
dear, dear! Why, what’s the matter, Scissors Shears―and Tommy Pin
Cushion―and Emery Bag?”
“It means good-bye!” sobbed Scissors Shears.
“It means good-bye!” sobbed Tommy Pin Cushion.
“It means good-bye!” whimpered Emery Bag.
“It means ‛au revoir,’ but not good-bye,” sang Sewing Bird.
“Oh, it do, do it?” said Scissors Shears, looking sharply at Sewing
Bird.
“Does it, Magic and Mystery?” asked Mary Frances.
“It doesn’t mean good-bye,” answered Fairy Lady. “But I can’t explain
it until some time later.”
[Illustration: “It means good-bye!”]
“My, I’m relieved!” said Mary Frances. “So―what is to-day’s lesson,
dear Fairy Lady?”
[Illustration: A Muff and Tippet]
“For Mary Marie more lovely things
The Fairy Lady to you brings,―
A little muff, and tippet of fur,
A sweet little summer cap for her,
A dainty little cross-stitch bag―
But I must stop for fear I’ll brag,”
sang Fairy Lady. Then stooping, she drew these patterns from under
the rocking chair cushion:
PATTERN 24.―DOLL’S MUFF AND TIPPET
See Insert VIII
Directions for making Doll’s Fur Muff and Tippet.
1. Cut tippet from heavy flannelette―arrow on lengthwise of
goods.
2. Mark with ink to imitate Ermine. Turn in edge one-quarter of
an inch. Baste.
3. Cut lining of silk.
4. From sheet-cotton cut a lining one-half of an inch smaller
than pattern edges.
[Illustration: Mark with ink]
5. Baste lining to this. Turn edges of lining over this, and
baste.
Sew on hook and eye, at the neck.
6. Baste linings to outside, and “slip stitch” together.
40.―SLIP STITCH
[Illustration: To Bind a Seam]
Is like hemming stitch, but the needle is slipped along about
one-half of an inch―for each stitch. The needle is put into the
material directly below where your thread is last brought out.
7. Cut and make muff in same way as tippet. Then, join the ends
of the outside in a plain seam. Open the seam, and hem down the
lining seam. Turn muff to right side.
Run through the muff a white cord.
PATTERN 25.―DOLL’S SUN BONNET
See Insert IX
Cut out and make in same way as Automobile Bonnet.
Suggestions for material―Figured organdy, with lawn brim; or,
brim of white pique.
If pique is used for brim do not make brim double, but
blanket-stitch the outer edge, and bind the seam where attached
to bonnet.
To Bind a Seam.―Cut a narrow bias strip of goods. Baste it even
with the seam on the wrong side. Stitch in place. Turn it over
the seam. Turn in the raw edge. Baste. Hem down. This may be done
with tape, which will not need edges turned in.
[Illustration: Slip stitch]
PATTERN 26.―DOLL’S WORK BAG
[Illustration: “I’ll excuse you for interrupting”]
Use checked silk-gingham.
Cut same as Doll’s Laundry Bag. (Pattern I.)
On the ends of the bag, work in cross-stitch, the “bunny” design
given on this page.
Make bag in same way as Doll’s Laundry Bag.
“In the morning, before ’twas light,
Two little bunnies began to fight;
They fit all day and they fit all night:
That made each such a mad little bun?
Because both were in cross-stitch done,”
sang Scissors Shears.
“I’ll excuse you for interrupting,” said Fairy Lady, “but when Mary
Marie gets all these things,
“Oh! won’t she be grand!
Won’t she be grand!
There’s not a lady
In the land
Who can with her compare.”
[Illustration: Bunny design]
Then Scissors Shears interrupted again,
“Alas! Alack!
If on my back
I wore such lovely, lovely clothes
I’d never freeze my little toes,
Nor wiggle up my little nose.”
[Illustration: “Enough of this fun”]
“Oh,” laughed Tommy Pin Cushion,
“If I could wear such lovely garb,
I then would feel no deadly barb
Of arrows aiméd at my heart.
That’s a grand rhyme! Am I that smart?”
Then Sewing Bird,
“Enough of this fun
For to-day.
Away, you rascals―
Run away!
[Illustration: “Am I that smart?”]
“but,
“Mary Frances, if you please,
Take the patterns, and make these
Pretty things―a lot of fun!
Let me see them when they’re done.”
[Illustration: She drew these patterns from under the cushion]
[Illustration: CHAPTER XXXII]