COLLAR AND BASQUE BELT

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 158, 1 April 1937, Page 7

COLLAR AND BASQUE BELT

Make Yourself A Smart And Unusual Set Of Wool And Wool Linen

jY COLLAR and belt set in basque pattern is both smart and unusual. The one described h?re is easily made, and is a most useful set for warmer winter days, which may possibly be frequent this year.

collar here is deeply cut and. quite round, the belt matching it as nearly as possible. The most suitable material is a very coarse wool linen. It may be coloured or. if in a cream or natural shade, the novel edging may introduce the colour. This edging consists of short lengths of

thick wool knotted into the edge of the collar, etc., to form a thick fringe, as shown in diagram D. To make a set similar to this one is an ideal way of using up odd scraps of wool which you may have left from other things. The colours may be mixed with good effect, but the thickness of each scrap of wool should be the same or the eliie appearance is lost. Colours may be mingled with an attractive uniformity. For instance, you may start at one of the pointed ends at the back of the collar by looping in six lengths of green wool. Next three lengths of brown may be introduced, and then one of bright cerise. Now start again with six green, and so on. It is advisable to lay out the collar and belt to gauge roughly where the strands will come and about bow far each group of colour will extend, so that you may arrange them to work in properly. For instance, with a scheme such as the one mentioned above, you may work round and find when you reach the opposite point of the collar that it will not match the other one. It may finish with yellow instead of green. Therefore, plan out your work first.

You will soon see how many strands it takes to go round the collar, etc. Cutting Collar and Belt. HMIE diagrams show the shapes of the collar and belt. To make them suitable for your own requirements, cut out paper patterns and tit them round your neck and waist, in rhe case of the collar cut out a full circle, using a large dinner plate as a pattern. Cut out an inverted V-shaited portion as in the diagram then tit the paper round your neck, adjusting it by cutting out a deeper V until it fits snuglv without fluting on the shouhlders. Cut the basque-belt to your own waist measurement and fit this also.

When your patterns are perfi- place them upon the material to be used aud cut out two of each. Remember that the material must be a coarse one. so that when the loops are forced between the threads they do not break them and make a hole.

Allow an extra quarter-inch all round the edges of the collar and belt. Tack the two collars together and the two belts with their right sides together. Machine them, vitli the exception of the -,eck curve and tlie curve at tlm waist. Leave the whole of the former unsewn, and a little unsewn in the centre of the latter. The work, may now easily be turned to its right side. Fringing the Edges. WHEN this has been done, sew up ' the openings and press tlie two articles under a damp cloth. Now spread them out. take a pencil and ruler and mark a series of dots around the edges to be fringed. You will have worked out previously, according to the thickness of your wool, how far apart these wl’l be. If only one shade of wool is to be used, there is no need for any preparation of this kind. Now cut your wool up into short lengths of about three inches. Take a bone crochet, hook with a head as small as possible. Loop the wool evenly over the hook and pull it through tlie material, holding the material with the edge away from you. Continue as in the diagram. Diagram C shows the back and front of the loops. Either may be used as the right side When all the edges have been fringed in this manner, slit two buttonholes a> the neck and waist of the collar ami belt and work buttonhole stitch (diagram E) round them, in thread toning with the linen. To each, attach two large buttons with link fastenings.