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 DRAWING - ROOM

WORK - BASKET.

BY MADEMOISELLE ROCHE.

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THERE are two ways of making this very pretty basket, either of which will require the foundation shape 50 to be prepared of firm 00 6 card - board. A true oval must be cut, round which a strip of cardboard about five inches deep must be sewn : a wire should also be sewn round the upper and lower edge. This can either be covered with a light blue silk, for the ground on which the stars are laid, or a strip of perforated cardboard may be substituted ; the stars are those 80 much used for orna立 menting velvet headdresses, and can be purchased of various shapes. The top of the basket, as well as the bottom, has a roll of crimson velvet, round which is twisted a row of either chalk-white, a wire at each edge, and should be fastened on or gold beads. The trimming within the roll over the basket the narrowed way of the oval, of velvet is a row of herringbone in crimson and finished at each end with either a bow of chenille, having two white or gold beads, ribbon or two white bead tassels. The inside whichever are used, on the velvet, on each of the basket must be lined with quilted silk; if point where the chenille turns. The handle is the outside is covered with blue silk, the inside formed of a strip of cardboard, about half an must be the same color ; but if the perforated inch wide, covered with crimson velvet, with a cardboard is chosen, the lining should be crimrow of beads twisted round it to match the top son, to match the velvet. This basket forms an and bottom of the basket : this should also have elegant ornament for a drawing-room table. 30

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BY MADEMOISELLE ROCHE. THE material on which this design should be executed is scarlet merino, and the pattern is worked in embroidery silks of every different color ; red, yellow, green, white, and black, being the principal. The manner of working the pattern is to use chain stitch for the out-

lines of the pines, which should have two rows for each line of the engraving, one in yellow, the other in red. The flower inthe center of each pine should be in solid chain-stitch- that is, the shape of each leaf should be a line of chain- stitch, and the interior filled in with two 85