VOGUE OF COLOUR

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 152, 24 December 1926, Page 14

VOGUE OF COLOUR

EfiHJflO-HHiBED LfN€M CLOTHS

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The vogue for colour in tea cloths and d'oyl'ey sets is a charming one, especially when tho tone of the linen is chosen to match or harmonise with the china and table decorations. Linen is procurable in tho most wonderful pastel

shades, which bocome more beautiful instead of deteriorating after repeated visits to tho laundry. And when two or even thrco harmonising tones arc used in the making of a set the effect is very good indeed.

Tho first sketch shows a design for a tray cloth which could be used also for making a luncheon set. Tho centre is a pale shade, such as lemon, and the border might bo Sevres blue, with a darker blue embroidery thread for the stitchcry. Having cut tho tray cloth to shape, out the border also to fit ho that it takes tho placo of a hem. It may be from one and a half to three inches wide, according to the size of tho tray cloth or d'oyloy, and it is first sown to tho edge with a very narrow turning and then, turned up on the outside. After tho edgo has been pressed in and talked down the stitchety is app.Hed. l?&s.haa-t!re^effect■'•ot■•an.■o'p§n-

work stitch, and is made up of a line 'of backstitching, followed by one of button-holing, so that tho stitch, when complete, makes tiny squares, as seen below on the left. The edge is also button-stitched, and motifs of the border fabric are sewn on at each corner. The tea cloth on the right is made of any colour preferred, with rings of cream or auy other pale-coloured linen as a decoration. Cut the rounds from a circle, or make one in cardboard as a pattern. Then tack on round the edge of the tea cloth, add the openwork

stitchcry (which is the samo as that employed for the tray cloth), and finish by cutting away the linen underneath the bordor. Two rows of openstitchery make the border for the cloth on the left. These may be half an inch wide and bo placed three inches apart. Two lines of backstitching make the design seen in the centro below, and this is filled in with slanting stitches. Three straight stitches placed close together, make tho spots between the openwork lines. Other pretty open stitches are shown below, also an oval motif of over-and-over stitch connected by lines of fine button-holing. This will make a useful finish for a corner, or may bo repeated to form a border. Tho scallop is blauket-stitched round, the stitches joined at the top, and a row of closely-worked itonah knots maws-»* pretty; ftAjh; |