Home-made Picture Frames

Myrtle Burr in the Rural Home writes : Carrie's picture frames were so handsome that I asked her permission to examine them more closely. They looked like beautifully carved wood. She told me she had made them all herself from common brown wrapping paper. She takes the paper and cuts it in inch and a half or two inch squares, then folds it in the middle to make ra three cornered square, then folds down each corner, making a perfect square, with a crease or line running through the middle (which must be left outside.) She then places one close above the other, sothepoints will run up, leaving the crease running through the center, and sews them together in a long strip. ïhis is the center. She now takes two of the paper squares (or three if she wishes) folded in the same way, places and sews them same as bef ore, and places them alongside of the strip, so that they will come out far enough on the side to make notches. She then continúes sewing these notches down each side until she has it long enough. She then takes pasteboard a little larger than the picture which she wishes to frame, and sews this on it. She measures it bef ore sewing, leaving room for both glass and picture to come far enough under it to hide the edges and make it flrm. After this is all done she gives it a good coat of varnish. These frames will ornament any room, if properly made. The same shade of paper must be used otherwise they will be spotted.