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Initialled Socks: If you are a confirmed sock -knitter, Audrea suggests a way of personalizing your gift socks for bobby-sox friends. Use a duplicate stitch to follow the yarn stitch and embroider the first initial on the top of one sock and last initial on the other. Barbara Bates, who likes this idea for Christmas gifts, sometimes puts both initials on one sock. 15. Afghans: Janis Paige has crocheted an afghan for a friend. With Christmas just around the corner there is not time to finish an afghan now. But Janis suggests that you crochet or knit several squares in all the colors you plan to use and wrap them with a note or jingle that explains this is a sample of the gift to come! 16. Belts: Doris Day uses something new in the crochet field to make a belt gift. It is a plastic yarn, which you can buy in most depatment stores. (Using a single crochet stitch with this yarn you can make tarns and bags, too!) If you want to make a belt like Doris’s, crocheting 12 chain stitches will make one about 2-inches wide, she says. Then go back and forth with a single crochet stitch for the length you want your belt. Buy a buckle to attach and presto — you have a “new look” belt. 17. Wooden Boxes: Franchot Tone, Brian Donlevy, Don Taylor and Bruce Bennett are among the stars who have their own wood workshops where they make things for their own homes as well as for friends’. Franchot Tone specializes in unusual mailboxes, Brian Donlevy makes flower boxes for windows, Don Taylor creates interesting cigarette boxes. is. Plate Racks: Bruce Bennett is busy making stained pine plate racks — a delightful gift for china-collecting friends. Bruce also makes some beautiful handcarved children’s toys. 19. Picture Frames: Among the women stars who are adept in handicrafts is Ida Lupino, who turns out picture frames and refinishes them, as she has done those in the illustration. Here’s how she does it: First of all remove the paint with paint remover. Then sand the frame down for smoothness. Brush on clear lacquer— any paint store can give you directions about the kind of paint, brushes, etc. After that is dry, paint over in color desired (one particular frame Ida painted dark green with a gold lip). Then, if you want an extra smooth finish, sand again between the first and second coats. For an extra high luster, finish the frame with a final coat of clear lacquer or varnish. Dull, antique finishes are obtained by rubbing white or gray flat paint unevenly with a rag on the frame after you have sanded the first coat. 20. Lamp Shades: Janis Carter, Columbia star, is making yarn-covered lamp shades for her Christmas presents. This is something fairly new in the handicraft field and, since custom-made shades are quite expensive, a shade made with yam to pick up the colors in a friend’s home would make a delightful gift. Small shades can be made for less than a dollar, larger ones for $2.00 and up, depending on the size of the lamp and quality of the yarn. For a new lamp shade you can buy wire frames at the dime store, but if you have an old fabric-covered shade you can rip off the material and use that frame. For a beginner, it is simpler to use the straight type of drum-frame rather than a slanted one. The type and color of yarn, of course, will be determined bv the room it is to serve. For a very informal room you can use a cotton yarn. Shag, such as used in rug-making, is smart for a big lamp. The smaller the lamp, the finer yam needed. Two skeins of yam will make a mediumsized lamp — the frame, yarn and a pair of scissors are your equipment. If you are making a small shade, Janis advises that you roll your yam into a small ball. Otherwise you cannot pass it over the top of the shade. Tie the end of the yam firmly to wire so that the knot comes on the wrong side and then start wrapping the yarn around the wire. Hold the yarn taut with your thumb (it is wise to wear a rubber finger cap, so you do not find yourself with blisters) pressing the yarn close together on the frame as you go. About every third turn overlap the yarn just a little so that there will be no spaces in between. When you come to the end of the ball or skein, tie the yarn so that the knot comes on the inside. When you finish wrapping, again tie the yarn end to the wire, top or bottom. It is wise to avoid a shade with too many spokes, as it makes wrapping more difficult. 21. Trout Flies: For your friends who are fishermen. Bob Stack, champion skeet shooter, hunter and fisherman, suggests you make especially designed flies. A book on fly-tieing is available at any sports goods store, he says. Then, all you need is a clamp, a small pair of pliers, lots of patience and imagination. He also suggest that if you both hunt and fish or have friends who do, that you save the feathers from green wing teal or any game birds and use them in making your flies. 22. Cards: Another Christmas suggestion comes from Hurd Hatfield, who makes his own Christmas cards as well as name cards for book owners, from linoleum block prints. For complete instructions Hurd recommends “Linoleum Block Printing with Color” by Henry Frankenfield. The necessary tools are not expensive, he says, and once purchased, are good for years . 23. Chef Aids: Charles Korvin, an accomplished chef, has a perfect suggestion for friends who are gourmets — readymade boxes of spices and seasonings as gifts, accompanied by unusual recipes. 24. Pomander Balls: Joan Caulfield is making these spicy-smelling balls for her friends to hang in linen closets. Her recipe is simple: She puts whole cloves into a thick-skinned California orange. To prevent the skin from cracking, she does not insert the cloves in even rows. When the orange is covered with the cloves she rolls it in a half-and-half mixtEire of ground cinnamon and pulverized orris root, then wraps it in tissue and stores it for ten days. Then she brushes it off, ties a ribbon around it and she has a gift any home-loving friend will value. 25. A Special Dessert: For that final gift for friends who drop in, we can think of nothing nicer than Jeanette MacDonald’s holiday suggestion. An ice cream lover, who almost every Sunday in the summer makes fresh peach ice cream in her old-fashioned freezer, Jeanette’s winter specialty is eggnog ice cream. Jeanette MacDonald’s recipe for Eggnog Ice Cream Over a low flame, heat 1 cup of cream until warm. Stir in % cup of sugar and Vs teaspoon of salt. Stir well until completely dissolved. Then cool these ingredients. When cool, add 3 cups of cream, 11/2 teaspoons of vanilla, 2 or 3 well -beaten egg yolks and put in ice cream freezer which has been packed with alternate layers of ice, salt, ice and salt (coarse freezing salt.) After chilled by contact with cold cylinder, add several tablespoons of rum or brandy, put lid on freezer and crank until ice cream is thick, firm and creamy in consistency. The End 1 78