THE PATCHWORK TEA-COSY

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 27, 1 February 1941, Page 19

THE PATCHWORK TEA-COSY

It was Brenda's and Jane's mummy who thought of the patch-work teacosy for Grannie's birthday.. You see, Grannie had such a lot of grandchildren, and they all wanted to give Granr nic a present for her birthday. So Brenda's and Jane's mummie. thought it would be a splendid idea if they all planned together and1 gave Grannie a patchwork tea-cosy made of bits of stuff left over from their frocks and blouses. Brenda's and Jane's mummie said that she would make the tea-cosy if they would bring the patches. Brenda and Jane said, "It's a lovely idea!" v „-■.... And then they had to tell all the other grandchildren. And all the other children thought it. was a lovely idea, too. So all the mummies had to begin busily searching in work-baskets and bundles to find scraps for the patchwork tea-cosy. There were scraps of pretty patterned silks from the little girls' frocks, and scraps from the little boys' blouses and knickers. They looked so gay and jolly when they were' all "mixed together. Then Brenda's and Jane's mummie cut them into neat little squares and began to make the patchwork tea-cosy. And some of the grandchildren were always popping in to see how it was growing. The day before Grannie's birthday, Brenda's and Jane's mummie packed it up carefully in a; parcel and posted it to Grannie* Grannie had invited all. her grandchildren to tea on her birthday. And when they arrived, there was the patchwork- tea-cosy 'set lip in "all its glory on the tea table. It looked splen-, did —more beautiful even ' than the birthday cake! . " , "Do you like it, Grannie?" cried all the grandchildren,^ and they all crowded round showing Grannie their own patches. .> • . <:. ; . "That's my bit, Grannie!" "There's a bit of me, Grannie!" And Grannie said they couldn't haye1 given her anything which would have pleased her more. . '•IvTShall-feel- as if I have- all my grandchildren/with, me (every day, when I have my tea," she said. —Sent by "PEG O' MY HEART." Ngaio.