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by Joy Gammon
LAST MINUTE PRESENT IDEAS..
Here are a few ideas for last minute
stocking fillers. Meant to knit
presents but never got round to it?
Give the yarn instead, with needles tog
if appropriate. Get a booklet on
learning to knit for a child and add a
couple of balls of yarn and some
interesting needles.
Or quickly knit up some of Wendy's
lovely Cartogn Knit toys, Victgria
Plum, the Pink Panther, or lotu of
others.
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P488ORACLE 488 Mon23 Dec C4 9716:42
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by Joy Gammon
LAST MINUTE PRESENT IDEAS...
Childrens knitted squares can make
lavender bags for Gran, or even
bedsocks if the squares are ambitious
and squashy enough.
Simply double squares and sew up both
ends and along half the long edge. /r
knit multi striped mittens fgr the
snow, no one can have too many, theyWre
always getting lost, or small bears or
dolls clothes.
A gorgeous doll's wardrobe can be made
and given in a cardboard "chest" fgr a
fraction of the cost of a bought one.
Next week: Happy Christmas. more >
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P488ORACLE 488 Mon23 Dec C4 9715:17
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by Betty Foster
LOOKING AT THE SALES...
December has long been recognised as
the month when very few people do any
sewing.
But the moment that Christmas is over
and the holiday brochures come out,
the dressmaker is in actign.
The ready-made shops have already
ordered their stocks fgr spring and
summer 1986, and the fabric left over
from the manufactuqers will have seen
sold to the merchantu who supply many
of the market traders.
more fgllows >
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P488ORACLE 488 Mon23 Dec C4 9715:52
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by Betty Foster
LOOKING AT THE SALES..
So, whilst you are buying youq holly
and mistletoe take a look at the wabric
stalls on the markets and pick up some
bargain lengths ready fgr the "off"
with the sewing machine.
A simple rule for buying fabric, with
no pattern in mind, is to get TWICE
your length (plus) hem PLUS the length
of any sleeve that you might use. You
can then always make something.
In the shops this is the time fgr a
"touch of the luxuries" when the pure
silks, and other expensive fabrics are
greatly reduced, so treat youquelf to
some glamour for 1986. more fgllows >
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