SCRAP-BAGS IN TURKISH TOWELING.

These are convenient little affairs.  Hung on the gas-fixture beside a looking-glass, or on a hook above the work-table, they will be found just the things to catch odds and ends, such as hair, burnt matches, ravelings and shreds of cloth, which are always accumulating, and for which many city bedrooms afford no receptacle.  The materials needed are three-quarters of a yard of pale-brown Turkish toweling, six yards of red worsted braid, four steel rings (to hold the strings), one-eighth of a yard each of blue, white, and scarlet cashmere, a skein each of blue, red, green, yellow, and black worsted, and a small red tassel in chenille or silk.

Cut four pieces of the toweling, twelve inches long and six and a half wide, and shape them according to diagram.

Bind each around with braid.  Cut out a shape in cashmere of the three colors laid one over the other, and button-hole it on with worsted, contrasting the shades in as gay and marked a manner as possible.  In the design given, A is white cashmere, B red, and C blue.  A is button-holed with green, B with black, and C with yellow.  B is chain-stitched in blue and white lines, C feather-stitched in white and yellow.  The daisy-like flower above is white, with a yellow center and a green stem, and the long lines of stitching on either side are in red and black.  Some of these bags are very pretty.

This bag could be simplified by using no cashmere, and feather-stitching each quarter diagonally across with alternate black, red, and yellow lines.

[Illustration:  PATTERN OF EACH OF THE FOUR SIDES OF SCRAP-BAG.]

[Illustration:  SCRAP-BAG IN TURKISH TOWELING.]

ANOTHER SCRAP-BAG.

The upper part of this bag is made of silver perforated paper.  Buy a strip a foot long and six inches wide, and embroider it all over in alternate lines of cross and single stitching, using single zephyr worsted, blue or rose-colored.  Cut a piece of stiff card-board of exactly the same size, and line it with pink or blue silk to match the worsted.  Sew the two ends together to form a circle, lay the silver paper smoothly over it, stitch down, and trim both edges with plaited satin ribbon three-quarters of an inch wide.

This is the top of your bag.  The bottom is crocheted in worsted by the ordinary long stitch, and sewed to the silver-paper top piece under the satin ribbon.  A worsted tassel finishes the lower end.

ARTISTIC EMBROIDERY.