QUESTION: Local children’s author Dorothy Maywood Bird described making Christmas presents as a child that began with cutting circles of felt and then adding buttons or ribbon bows. What was she making?

Answer: D. Pen-wipers. She added that “the top layer could be very attractive since no one would dream of wiping a pen on it. People decorated their snowshoes. Dorothy remembered that hers had pink and blue tufts and mother’s had red yarn rosettes.