ONLY ONE YARD

Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 35, 4 November 1922, Page 16

ONLY ONE YARD

USE FOR CREPE DE CHINE Ono yard of crepe de chine. “Not enough for anything,” says the bargain-hunter,; perhaps, and throws it back on the remnant table. But she is mistaken —it is enough—for many things. One yard ef washing silk will make the most delightful peignoir and boudoir cap, or three fascinating camisoles; or nine or a dozen, according to size, silk handkerchiefs, which cost such a lot bought separately, or many other things (states a writer in the Afelbourne “Age”)To produce the peignoir out of one yard of crepe de chine 40 inchcf wide you merely cut off four inches of the material at ono gnd, leaving a 36-inch square. Fold this in half diagonally, and cut up the centre of the A 7" just formed, taking out a scrap to ipake the neck sit properly. Either turn in ths rough edges, or sew a quilling of lace all round and up the centre, or tack it all around and send it to a hemstitching shop. When your remedged. AATien this is done, fold in half diagonally again, and find the correct position for the ribbon to tie the sleeves and ’front. If the ribbons are run through slots, they can be removed for washing, and the garment ironed flat in about five seconds. The four-inch piece cut off is sufficient for a cap with lace edge. Three camisoles can be made by turning in a hem at each end of the yard of silk, and running a line of tacking thread right across the width of material at intervals of 12 inches. Tack a rough design, such as a. star, souare, or oval in the centre of each of these 12-inch strips, and send the entire yard, uncut and tacked, to a hemstitching ship. AATien your remnant comes home, you cut carefully in half the hemstitched lines at the 12inclf marks. This gives a picot edge on either side. A’ou now have two camisole nieces, with neat hemstitched tons, and one with a picot top. It onlv remains to sew the side seams, nnd turn in the waist hems for elastic. The little designs will also corje home hemstitched, and these will save much trouble in embroider. Ribbons must be added for shoulder straps, unless material straps are preferred, in which case they should be tacked nnd outlined, and sent to be hemstitched with the rest. At the moment picot is a fashionable trimming for silk underwear; it looks Letter than chean lace. Crepe de chine handkerchiefs are made in the same wav. outlined into perfect squares, with lines of tacking, and hemstitched or nicot-edged. Picoted'iing is merely hemstitching cut in half. /