HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1983-06-01, Page 26Page 6—Crossroads—June 1, 1903
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I have just returned from
Toronto where I attended the
10th Annual Canadian Home
Sewing and Art Needlework
Trade Show. For the first
time, the "Knit and Chat"
magazine had a booth and it
was so delightful to meet the
many yarn shop and craft
shop owners from across the
country.
The suppliers of this indus-
try have many lovely yarns
that are new for this Fall. In-
cluded are mohairs in a host
of gorgeous colors, and super
soft and light as a loud.
Some even are totally acryl-
ic, yet look and feel exactly
like mohair.
There are brushed tweedy -
fleck yarns, plus silk, and
silk with angora, and a whole
host of cotton yarns for sum-
mertime wear. One com-
pany is importing a wonder
fibre yarn from China which
a smooth and glossie and
often referred to as "the poor
man's silk".
Two lovely kits caught my
eye, I suppose because they
reminded me so much of
Spring and it's rather late
coming in Montreal. These
were Charntin kits, both
were for counted cross-
stitch, one was of a charming '
pt of -daffodils; the other for
geraniums. Everything was
included in the kit down to
the needle, and counted
cross-stitch is a very plea-
snat craft to do during the
summer months.
Craft kits are now being
imported from England. The
flowers and small animals
will remind you so much of
England. I fell in love with
the one of robins, as they are
so different from the birds
we call robins here. English
robins only have red breasts,
and they stay all winter and
it's delightful to see them in
the snow. These particular
kits were unique too, as the
fabric on which the design
was to be embroidered was
attached to the actual plastic
frame. In other words, it
doubled up as an embroidery
frame.
One other -item which
caught my eye, was "stork"
scissors. I haven't seen these
for quite some time. They
were apparently fashionable
back in Victorian times,
when every young lady was
taught to sew and embroid-
ery was considered highly as
a household skill. Stork scis-
sors were then worn on a
cord around the neck, so they
were always handy, as well
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as being an adornment.
H. A. Kidd is now bringing
these fine pointed embroid-
ery scissors to the Canadian
market. They are about 10
cm or 4 inches long and
make a wonderful gift for
your sewing friends. Look
for them in yarn and craft
stores.
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Why not utilize your sum-
mer evenings and enjoy cro-
cheting this lovely table-
cloth? Worked in motifs with
two colors, you'll enjoy using
this beautiful cloth come the
festive season and for family
get-togethers.
To order Leaflet No. 7861,
send 75 cents, plus a stamped
self addressed return envel-
ope. If you do not have a
stamp or envelope, please
enclose an extra 50 cents to
cover the cost of handling
and print your name and ad-
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Antique
or
Junque
Q. What can you tell me
about this drop-leaf stand?
It is solid cherry; the
drawers are hand dove-
tailed and everything
about the stand suggests
that it was handmade.
A. This would be classi-
fied as Country Sheraton.
It was made during the
second quarter of the 19th
century and should sell in
the $275 to 1325 range.
Stands like this are ex-
tremely popular with col-
lectors because of their ex-
ceptional utility. The
greatest asset of an an-
tique is that it is useful as
well as decorative.
Backyard
Gar�'ener
By PATRICK DENTON
Banner year for
veggie patches
I'd be willing to bet a
bale of peat moss that
more seeds are being
bunged Into the soil in
home gardens across the
country this spring than at
any time in ow history.
It's partly the economy
thing and partly a rising
desire in many hearts to
return to more earthly vale
ues.
Family vegetable patch-
es are springing up where
before grass reigned su-
preme in many back yards.
Whether this is your situa-
tion or you are working an
established plot, there's
preparatory work to be
done.
First, the soil will bene-
fit from some preparation.
If you prefer organic soil
enricheners, spread any
combination of compost,
peat, old or dried manure,
bone and blood meal over
the garden site. If you use
chemical fertilizer, spread
a complete one like 6-8-6 or
10-10-10 at a rate of a quart
for every 100 square feet of
garden area. Peat mois-
tened with fish emulsion
can be dug into the plant-
ing sites of heavy feeders
like tomatoes and cu-
cumbers.
_..__ ! don't -cake or --dig. the
fertilizer in all at once be-
cause 1 dig over each row
before planting. its earl
row is planted, the site for
the neat gets trodden down
anyway, so I long ago gave
up any digging prior m
planting.
You'll need at the plant-
ing site a digging fork
(long -handled ones are
easiest on the back), a
rake, a hoe, two straight
sticks and string. I plan my
rows to go east -west, so the
sun will follow the lines of
my plantings and not be
blocked by the taller ones.
To plant seeds in a single
row, first dig over the line
where the row will be, then
rake it smooth and mark
the row with string
stretched between the two
sticks. Make the seed fur-
row with either the sharp
corner of your hoe, or the
handle ofyour rake, fol-
lowing the line of your
string.
Small seeds like lettuce
and carrot need just a very
shallow indentation, so just
pressing the rake handle
into the ground under the
string is fine for them.
Larger seeds like corn
need greater planting
depth. Calculate the
amount of soil to cover the
seed to be about four times
the diameter of the seed it-
self.
When the furrow is
ode,:: and=beim= the €O
is placed in it, I like to
dampen down the furrow
with a.:fertiiiver solution.
Again, if you like the nate
ral fertilizers use a fish (or
seaweed if you can get it)
emulsion. Otherwise, use a
water-soluble balanced
chemical fertilizer like 20-
20-20 awed according to
label directions.
My sowing routine in-
volves pouring a bit of seed
into the dry palm of my
hand and picking some out
to dispense between my
fingers into the furrow.
This is for the small seeds
— larger seeds like peas
and corn are best placed
individually in the row.
The hoe can be used to
cover the seed, the flat
part of the hoe employed to
lightly tamp down the soil
to ensure firm contact of
the seed with the soil. At
this point I use a fine line
of lime fora temporary
marker, and 1 mark the
row with the variety, seed
company and date.
While larger vegetables
are best planted in single
rows because they take up
a lot of space, most root
crops and salad vegetables
can be planted in wide
bands, a method of plant-
ing which uses your garden
space much more efficient-
ly and cuts down on weed-
ing and watering.
' To plant in a wide band,
dig over the site in the
same way and place the
string marker. Use an iron
rake to smooth the soil be-
side the string. This will
mark your planting band
and you can make it two or
three rake widths if you
wish.
The wide planting band
can then be sprinkled with
your fertilizer solution, this
time with the rosette sprin-
kler on the watering can.
Then, the seed is scattered
on the wide *al, firmed
into the soil vine back
of thelez; thfe rcii'eii- -
with soul from the sides of
the band and the fresh soil
down again with -
the back of the hoe.
Fisheries aid increased
Norway is increasing its
subsidy to its hard-pressed
30,000 fishermetj and their
dependent industries on
land to 1157 million this
year from about 1137 mil-
lion in 1982.
'Ongoing' going on long
"Ongoing," sort of an
"in" word now, is far from
new. As early as 1877, nov-
elist George Ellaot's pub-
lisher described a certain
edition as. an "on-going
thing."
011 -gas field rich
The Troll field northeast
of Bergen, Norway, in the
North Sea is calculated to
contain oil and gas valued
at $285 billion, more than
10 times Norway's national
budget.
Don Wright is an artist and a
hemophiliac. His blood won't clot
without Factor VIII, a component
of blood plasma.
He is alive and healthy today
BECAUSE PEOPLE
GIVE BLOOD.
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