NOVEL TEA COSIES

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 92, 15 October 1927, Page 15

NOVEL TEA COSIES

Tea cosies made / in'the shape of country cottages are veiy simple to make. Any woman-wKo has the average skill /with an embroidery needle can turn out very.creditable specimens. The cosy should be made in the customary, squat shape, but with a piece of material inserted at each end to give the Bide walls of the cottage. The cover must bo made in cream or white cloth to-represent plaster. Then comes the idofj this is merely a piece of brown felt or thick felted cloth, folded Vshape and fixed with -invisible Btitches on the cosy. It^just sits on the cosy like^a hat, the edges being allowed to overlap the latter and so form eaves. The tops of the side walls of the cosy, must be mitred off to fit the shape of the roof. Windows and doors are outlined on to the white walls in dark £p!-«PTi embroidery silk, and if the emtiroidereas has patience enough, oak beams may also bo embroidered on the Tipper part of the cottage to give a half-timbered effect. The garden and the creepers come next, and in that respect imagination may Tun Tiot. All around the'basis of the cosy should be embroidered little growing plants with brightly-colourrjil flowera. There should lie a certain amount of precision about the arrangements in order that the formality of herbaceous borders is suggested. Use simple stitches, avoiding elaboration. Delphiniums, lupins, sunflowers, all look well, if the heights aro varied as much as possible. The creepers are embroidered? directly upon the grails in the same way. '