A Simple Arrangement for Keeping Safety Pins - Materials Required - A Practical Idea for the

Nursery Pincushion

The safety pin is a toilet requisite of everyday life; not only is it used by the mother to ensure comfort to her children, but most women like to have a few of these practical little fasteners at hand. All sizes are to be found on the modern dressing table, from the serviceable pin that safely secures skirt and blouse together to the tiny lace safety half an inch long.

But safety pins have a way of tangling themselves together in a very aggravating fashion unless special provision is made for their safe keeping.

A safety-pin holder is therefore one of those trifles which may add to the sum of

Needlework one's individual comfort, and will certainly appeal to those who like a "place" for their belongings.

To make a holder such as is illustrated on this page there will be required five brass rings and between two and three yards of inch-wide ribbon. Some heavy embroidery silk or mercerised thread and sewing cotton, to match the ribbon in shade, and the materials are complete.

First cover each ring in the embroidery silk by closely working double crochet stitches over it. Then measure four lengths of ribbon, respectively 15, 12, 9, and 6 inches, and to one end of each secure a covered ring.

Sew the four lengths of ribbon together at the top, so that the rings come one above the other, and attach the four thicknesses to the fifth ring, by which the holder will be suspended.

The addition of a tiny pincushion for the reception of ordinary pins is a distinct advantage, and this should be fastened through the ribbon tabs, holding them in position.

A bow of the same ribbon tied over the top ring is a pretty finish, while a little fancy stitchery on the cushion, and at the junction of ribbon and rings, gives an individual note. A tiny flower embroidered or painted on the ribbon is another suggestion for the decoration of this decidedly useful holder.

The contents of a box of steel safety pins can be arranged in their varying sizes on the separate rings, and the user can see at a glance which size is required.

Another pincushion, with rings attached for the reception of "safeties," is a practical idea for the nursery. Such a cushion is intended to be tied to the railing of the bed of mother or nurse when in charge of small children at night. Or when used for an invalid it would save the nurse m any steps in search of the ever recurring need of a safe and quick fastening for wrap, shawl, or bandage.

The stuffing of these little cushions should be of woollen material cut into tiny pieces. Coarse soft wool in skein, cut into short lengths, also forms an admirable stuffing. There is an art in filling a cushion satisfactorily, simple as it may appear. The stuffing must be packed tightly and firmly, but not to bursting point; the corners have to be filled and pulled out to shape, or the trim appearance of the finished cushion will be spoilt. A cotton filling is not to be recommended; the pins will not pass easily through it, and nothing is more annoying than to find that pins or needles refuse to slip smoothly into the substance of a cushion.

Either of these holders are trifles that are quickly made, and which will prove extremely good

"sellers" at bazaars.

A pincushion that can be tied to the bed-rail is a great convenience when nursing an invalid, ft should contain safety-pins as well as the ordinary kind

Hanging holder for safety-pins of varying sizes, and small cushion for ordinary pins