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Summer Clothes For 4-H Girls : Extension Circular 4-06-2, Allegra Wilkens

Nebraska 4-H Clubs: Historical Materials and Publications

4-H project for making summer clothes and record keeping for all aspects including time and expenses.

The Girls Room, A Place To Live : Extension Circular 11-01-2 1934, Helen Noyes

Nebraska 4-H Clubs: Historical Materials and Publications

Planning for the work in this project.

In order to be eligible for the 4-H Girl's Room project, the member should be 12 years of age and should know the following things about sewing:

1. The tools necessary for good sewing.

2. How to make simple stitches such as basting, running, hemming, overcast, and overhand.

3. How to use the sewing machine.

4. How to make a plain seam, a French seam, and a felled seam.

5. How to make a hem and facing.

6. How to put on a fias facing and binding.

Problems In Room Improvement : Extension Circular 11-02-2, Helen Noyes

Nebraska 4-H Clubs: Historical Materials and Publications

You are beginning the second project in a Girls Room Club. It is called "Problems in Room Improvement" because in it you learn to select and make articles that will add to the attractiveness of your room. In order that you may plan the work that you will do, an outline is given here of the problems your club will study.

Pictures for a Girls Room

Handmade rugs and chair seats

The comfortable bed

Lampshades and wastebaskets

The reading or writing center