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Here are directions: Crossroads -Feb. 23, 1983 -Page 15 at a time, as follows: Lay four yarns across head, sew down to form center part, and repeat until hair is in place. Note: Sew yarns close together to keep head from showing through. FINISHING: 1. Trim yarns at arm and leg ends. 2. Tie hair in bunches. 3. Trim ends of hair. 4. Cut ribbon in half. With each half, tie a bow around the doll's hair. WHAT CAN YOU DO WITH EMPTY `TOILET PAPER ROLLS? They are iJenl for keepin5 maps rolled Cut into strips, they are used as napkin rings. FUNCTIONAL PASS -THROUGH -A striped Austrian shade adds color and function to this room. A shade such as this could be used to obscure a view from din - Decor Score By BARBARA HARTUNG Everyday area can be elegant Q. The kitchen pass- through to the dining area in my condominium is giv- ing me problems. I like the pass-through for everyday use because a dining bar extends along the dining area wall. But when I en- tertain I like to use the dm- ing bar as a buffet and don't want guests looking into the kitchen. I have considered wood- en louvers but they are a bit expensive. Could you suggest a solution I might be able to do myself? I am quite good at sewing. - R.P. A. You could fashion an Austrian shade for your pass-through. For every- day use, pull the blind up. When entertaining, it would be easy • to lower. Choose an interesting fabric that will lend life to this part of your condomi- nium. You could also re- peat the fabric on chair seats and make matching place mats and table runners. Q. I want to arrange my sofa and chairs in a com- fortable conversational setting. What distance should there be between seating pieces? - N.C. A. Most designers sug- gest there should be no more than 8 feet separat- ing people for a comfort- able conversational ar rangement. Figure about 18 to 20 inches between sofa and chair and the cof- fee table. That is about a minimum amount of space for walking without bump ing shins. Tentatively arrange fur- niture but remain flexible. You may find the arrange- ment looks good when the room has no people in it but too crowded when you entertain. Q. 1 am creating a high - style living room Lill my new apartment ,awn walls, beige c 1, coffee - colored modular seating, a beige, blue and cream area rug and fawn vertical blinds at the windows. What kind of lighting should I plan? I don't want to clutter up the room with little end tables and table lamps. R.P.L. A. Many designers say the more dramatic the lighting in a modern set- ting, the better. Consider ceiling spotlights, recessed ing room into kitchen. Design is by Nick Grande and furniture is by Chromcraft. lighting on a wall or ceiling to throw illumination up or down, or track lighting that can be directed as you wish. This can provide gen- eral room lighting Also, consider floor - standing lamps in brass. They induce only minimal visual distraction and pro- vide necessary task light- ing for reading and close work Also, small spot- lights at the base of a large indoor plant can be dra matic and focus interesting shadows on walls and ceil• ing Q. We are finding it hard to decorate our living room because it is so long and narrow, extending 50 feet from one end to the other. I would like some suggestions on breaking up this room without building walls or any major remod- eling. - E.D.K. A. You probably can ( break up the length and disguise the narrowness of your room through careful furniture arrangement. Consider having two dif- ferent types of furniture arrangement. One arrange- ment could include a pair of short sofas facing each other with a coffee table in the middle. Place these short sofas so they parallel the narrow walls. This would be better than a long sofa that would only em- phasize the length of the room. In another section of the roam, arrange three lounge chairs with a center table. Remember to allow for traffic to flow through the room. Don't arrange furni- ture so you have to walk around it. You also could paint the narrow • walls a dark shade and the longer walls a lighter shade. This will tend to bring the room into a more pleasing rectangle. MAKE it YOURS By ELLEN APPEL A yarn doll is exactly that: a doll made of yarn that has been tied, braided, and twisted to form a head, body, arms and legs. If you have no scraps of knitting yarn, you can make a yarn doll in practi- cally no time. Aside from the yarn, you need very. few other supplies. The head is a child's plastic ball; the face consists of felt scraps; the hair is yarn in a contrasting color 1 Yarn dolls, like Raggedy Ann dolls, wooden boats, and teddy bears are among our classic hand-crafted toys. Making toys such as these has been part of American family tradition since pioneer days. For all who love hand- crafted toys, instructions for countless classics have now been compiled for "Favorite Easy -To -Make Toys," from Sedgewood Press. Aside from the most MATERIALS: Four ounces knitting worsted for the body; two ounces mohair -type yarn for hair, hollow plastic ball, about 7 inches in diameter, scraps of red -felt; scraps of non- woven interfacing, fabric glue; 10 inches of 1/2 -inch width ribbon; yarn needle. ARMS: 1. Cut two 10 -inch lengths of yarn for binding the arms. 2. Wind yarn in a loop to make a skein 16 inches in length from be- ginning to end, and 100 strands thick. 3. Cut skein at each end. 4. Bind with yarn about 1 inch from one end. 5. Braid skein. Bind other end with yarn. BODY and LEGS: 'Prep- aration: 1. Cut five 10 -inch lengths of yarn for binding body and legs. 2. Wind yarn in a skein 40 inches long and 150 strands thick. 3. Cut skein at each end. 4. Bind skein firmly in the middle. BODY and LEGS: 1. Lay arms across middle of skein. Fold skein over them. Bind firmly just below arms to hold them in place. 2. Bind skein again about 2 inches farther down to form hips. 3. Be- neath hips, divide skein in half. Braid each half to form legs. 4. Bind ends firmly. HEAD: 1. Cover plastic ball with fabric glue. Leave a small space at top and bottom for holding ball with thumb and forefinger. 2. Wind yarn around and around ball, taking care that all strands go in the same direction and cross each other and the top and bottom. Cover ball com- pletely with yarn. 3. Darn loose end of yarn under other yarns. 4. Allow head to dry. 5. With needle and yarn, sew head to body. FACE: 1. Cut two eyes from interfacing. Draw pu- pils with markers. 2. Cut mouth from red felt. 3. Glue eyes and mouth to head. 4. Draw eyelashes, eyebrows and nose with markers. HAIR: 1. Cut 80 14 -inch lengths of mohair -type yarn for hair. 2. Cut 20 3 - inch lengths of mohair - type yarn for bangs. 3. Sew bangs to head, four strands at a time, as follows: Fold four yarns in half, stitch to head, and repeat until bangs are in place. 4. Sew hair to head, four strands Shfri�yWhifthIhlgt�n... Parents and kids are doomed to struggle eternally about messy bedrooms. Parents like a casual yet well -organized look, en- livened by a few tasteful pennants and an artistically placed tennis racket. They TRIUMPH FOR ONLY 99 New Releases From 5699 Little River Band Grt. Hits Journey Frontiers Foreigner Jazzersize Records TDK Blank Cassette D-60.53.39 D-90-$3.79 8 Trk. Clearance $2.99 ea. Come in and check out our $3.99 LP rack. ARNY'S STUDIO 146 146 Main St. S. Mount Forest 323-3254 paper the walls with baller- inas or racing cars, put up yards of shelving, and install hooks at convenient levels. In truth, most kids prefer the early sweatsock look. Some of those socks are really early. 1 have fished footwear out from under the bed that has been there so long it's too small for the owner. As far as kids are concern- ed, only two things in a bed- room need to be immediately accessible - the light switch and the stereo. Everything else exists to be layered with other things. The wallpaper is quickly obscured by hock- ey posters and pictures of Who. The shelves hold empty pop cans and balled -up rugby shirts. The clothes hooks are used to drape patch cords and headphones on. Almost anything goes in the window - • anything ex cept the carefully co-ordin- ated mom -chosen, drapes. Even in the most look-alike subdivisions, you can always tell which household includes a teenager. It's the place with the Canadian flag draped across the upstairs window It would be unfair to sug- gest that parents never have messy rooms Our bedroom mixes the ambience of back- stage at Minsky's Burlesque with an explosion in a gar- ment factory. We too store unused clothing and overdue library books under the bed. We are no strangers to the art of hanging clothes from curtain rods and light fix- tures. The difference is that we definitely plan to clean. the place up, as soon as we have time, or move, which- ever comes first. Mess never seems to bother kids. They can live happily in chaos until it be- comes necessary to hire an archeologist to find them - under all the offal layers. But messy bedrooms bother mothers because we know that that hideous disorder signifies a parent who is too lazy to say, "Go up there and clean your room'. a lot. Just last week I talked to a friend who said she thought her daughter was out until she looked in her room and saw a pile of dirty clothes moving "Then,' she said, "I realized she was lying there on the floor, listening to her Walk -man." I tried to reassure her 1 told her she was lucky the kid was in the clothes If clothes move arhund by themselves, it's extermina tor time, and that really wows the neighbors I told her 1 knew how she felt. 1 used to worry about messy bedrooms too. but after a while 1 just closed the door - providing there was enough clearance on the floor, As it turned out, the kids didn't suffer any per- manent damage from spend- ing all that time inside a giant Cuisinart. Actually, once they got out on their own with their own vacuum cleaners and Tidy -Bowl sets, they changed. Last week I visited three young men, all of who were at one time declared unclean by their parents. All three live away from, home now, and 1 was prepared to find them half buried in un- washed laundry and dirty dishes, Such was not the case. The first lad welcomed me warmly and suggested 1 leave my boots in a tray in the outer hall so I wouldn't scar the hardwood. "My landlord's a neatness freak," he said. At the next place I visited, I tried to he helpful by putting away dishes which were air-dried in a rack be- side the sink. 1 just kind of shoved the mixing bowls into the bottom cupboard with the pots and pans the way I do at home. My son grabbed them. "They go over here," he said pointedly. "I have a special shelf for them. Then I know where to find them when I need them." Finally I visited a dear nephew whose unorthodox housekeeping habits almost drove his mother to despair when he lived at home. 1 rushed up the stairs to his big bright flat and dumped my coat and parcels on the floor. Then I settled in the spotless kitchen. Before he put the coffee pot on, my nephew quietly hung up my coat and stowed my parcels safely in the bathroom where the cat couldn't get them. (This flat is picturesque and the only door that shuts tightly is the one on the bathroom.) So you see - all three are living tidy well ordered lives. Not one has been jailed for leaving his towel on the bathroom floor, and nor has any one of them been evicted for not making his bed. I suggest you think about all this - all of you out there in mum -and -dad -land. Your young people may be tem- porarily untidy, but it's not terminal. When they get their own nests they will not befoul them with candy wrappers and dirty clothes. Still - 1 suggest an ad- vance phone call before you go down to the city to visit them. ® Too fat ? Too thin? Too tired? Too often? Do something for somebody... ° Your body' Fitness is fun, Try some. PatmaPBCP/P1/yS. J ram ST CHRISTOPHItR & JANICE NTIRGlS Inn RECYCLING This week on your ' Country Cable Community Channel CHANNEL 9 Listowel, Gowanstown, Palmerston, Harriston MONDAY EVENINGS 8:00 p.m. Listowel Kinsmen Cable Bingo country cable ltd. For After Hours b. Cable Service Call 1-800-265-3227 ABOUT SERVICE AT CY-JO CYCLE Frankly, we're confused. Lately we've been told by some of our potential customers that they "heard we don't service" our bikes. So, let's set the record straight. - We have not one, but two equipped service departments ready to look alter your new or used HONDA or KAWASAKI. - Our mechanics are factory trained by ser- vice schools and continuous training exams to learn the most up to date servicing techni- ques, so that your HONDA or KAWASAKI gets serviced right the first time, - We do all our work by appointment to en- sure the least possible "down time" for your bike. After all, you bought it to ride; not to wait for it. Call 291-1556 for an appointment at our Listowel store. - Did you know many of our service staff have won service awards from HONDA, at the regional and also the overall national ser- vice award level? These competitions take place between all HONDA dealerships. Now, where would you rather buy your new HONDA or KAWASAKI from? We've been in this business for nine years because we service what we sell .. and we're good at it. GIVE US A TRY Greg Psutka - Listowel Manager CY®JO CYCLE 1190 Wallace Ave N Listowel 291-1556 380 King St N Waterloo 884-1210