The Bookshelf for boys and girls Children's Book of Fact and Fancy part 2 (1912)
University Society, New York · New York : University Society · leaf 151
o be soaked before using, andbeing softer, it is easier to work with. It alsomakes a softer basket when finished. A SEWING-BASKET IN TWO COLORS It will be easier to start a basket on a fewstrands of raffia instead of twine, which mustbe used later. Thread a sharp-pointed needlewith a single piece… … SEWING-BASKET.(Seven inches across.) and wind the single piece of raffia (threaded onthe needle) around these pieces, until an inchor more has been covered; then coil this coveredraffia as tight and small as possible to make thelittle center; sew through this center with raffia-
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