If possible, let all the net-work be made of pliable, soft material; it is easier to handle, and the results are much prettier.
Make the curtains of any color you may fancy.
CHAPTER IV
AN ARMFUL OF SHAVINGS AND WHAT TO DO WITH THEM
DO you love to go into a carpenter-shop, with its sweet-smelling woods and fascinating tangle of white and rose-tinted shavings, and to watch the carpenter guide his plane along the edge of a board, shaving off so evenly and smoothly the long curls which look almost as natural as the ringlets of a little girl? I am sure that many times you have tucked the ends of the shavings under your hat and scampered off with the curls streaming out behind or bobbing up and down delightfully at the sides.
It is great fun, yet there is still more entertainment to be found in these pretty shavings.
Gather an armful, then, choosing the most perfect ones, not too thin, with firm, smooth edges, and you shall weave them into