BABY'S EIDERDOWN

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 70, 20 September 1939, Page 14

BABY'S EIDERDOWN

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This- modern version, of a patchwork quilt can be made at home at a very small cost, states a correspondent in "The Queen."

Delicate touches of hand embroidery give their particular charm to a dainty patchwork down quilt for baby's cot. The cover of the quilt is specially designed, to be easily removed for washing purposes. It mayj be made at very little.cost, since the.] squares may be cut from those lovely" bits of silk that collect in a piece bagJ Choose several pretty pastel shades for the patchwork. » ,

One yard of artificial or thick silk, 36 inches wide, will be required for the back and side borders of the quilt, costing about two or three shillings. If an entirely new quilt is to be made, two yards of material, about 24 inches wide, will be needed to make the inner bag to contain the down.

Cut a piece of silk 36 inches long by 24 inches wide for the back of the quilt. Cut the remaining material into four lengths, 3 inches wide each. Seam, one of these strips to each side and ends of the back; mitre the corners.

Cut an 8-inch square in stiff paper or cardboard. Use this as a pattern to cut fifteen squares from the silk piepes. Choose some transfers with tiny flower designs, and iron off one in ffre centre of each square.

While working, some of the silk edges will have unravelled. For this reason 2-inch turnings have been allowed. When all the little flowers have been worked in natural shades, cut 1 inch off all sides of the pattern card and cut all squares to this size. Arrange the squares ,on a table in groups of three in each raw, making five rows in all. All flowers should be placed to "grow" the same way. Tack the first three squares together, then machine. Then sew the next three together, and join the two finished rows. Continue in the1 same way. Take in 1-inch turnings.

Machine the patchwork piece w&eh,-. finished to . the borders of, the quilt, with the exception of one end which is left open to put in the filßng. Press with a very mild iron on the wrong ,side, and turn to right side. Make a bag, 35 inches by 23 inches, of the lining material and fill with down; seam up, and slip into the cover. Stitch up open end.

With pale green silk stab right] through to the other side at the corner of each square, stab back to front of ( quilt and tie firmly. Cover these stitches by working a French knot.

When the cotfer needs to visit the washtub, just cut the hand-stitched end >and cut the French knots car-efedlyv land sl3p orat tH» down-case.