Completing a Wool Picture

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 70, 23 March 1940, Page 2 (Supplement)

Completing a Wool Picture

Samplers were in great vogue during great grandmother's day, but Tinkerbell thinks these quaint embroidery pictures will always find favour with young needleworkers. Last week directions were given for making a basket of forget-me-nots on a piece of canvas, the whole picture being worked in seven colours. This week I am going to tell you what to do to complete your sampler.

After you luive made the cluster of flowers I described to you previously, you will come across two flowers close together; we make one a light blue and one a darker blue, and then proceed with the green leaves in a similar fashion, just counting the squares. When the pattern begins to work out and show* itself it will become most interesting. If we find any fresh diflirnlty in counting.the squares on the canvas, we should think of the squares as crosses, because the texture of the canvas shows them in this way. If you follow the diagram printed in this corner a week ago, you will have no trouble in seeing exactly how the colours "fit in." The handle of the basket is worked in brown wool, starting from the right of our first forget-me-not. The basket itself comes next, as shown in the. picture given previously. At the bottom of tlie basket a row of five squares is left to show the rim. These are to be filled in when the background is made. We work the bow in pink, and from this we can easily count to the corner sprays, which arc worked in blue and green. the bar on which the birds arc seated wc can start from the centre and work outward—fivo squares down from the bottom of the basket, and 24 for the bar. Next, we work tho two birds, and, last of all, the two borders. The birds' eyes should bo put in brown. The birds arc mado in canary yellow, and the bar is green. Tho borders .also in green, of two shades. "We must not forget " the three blue flowers below the bar. When tho background has been filled in with cream, fasten oIT your thread and press the picture on the wrong sida with a warm iron. The finished article should be about the size of a postcard, ' and is now ready to frame.