FOR YOUR QUEST ROOM

Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 16 November 1929, Page 17

FOR YOUR QUEST ROOM

Memory recalls a delightful weekend spent in a delightful home, where the hostess had herself designed and carried out a garden-like guest room. One remembers a most delightfully appealing breakfast tray; so daintily merging with the soft hues of the 100 m, writes an Englishwoman. It was of basketwork surrounding a pale yellow enamel base, the china was blue-grey pottery, with a primrose design worked into each article, even to the tiny toast-rack, butter-dish, and salt-cellar. Surmounting the teapot and egg-cup were two of the most chaming cosies, decorated with wee hunches of flowers each a. pastel shade. The dainty clusters of flowers were cut from little patterns of dressinggown flannel, as were the cosies themsblv<?s . Just a quarter of a yard of applegreen, for the outside, and primroseyellow dressing-gown flannel made two tea cosies and four egg cosies. Each was three-sided; seven inches high and six inches wide, for each side. The cuttings were used for the egg cosies and flower centres; each side was shaped like a Gothic arch. Flowers were made and applied to each side first. White, mauve and pink, tiny five-sided figures were cut, folded corner to corner, and a wee bit snipped out. Then a golden centre for the white, palest yellow for the mauve, and white or rose-red for the pink, , were cut, and a green bud and stem in one to complete the' bunch. A needle was threaded with cotton, pushed through from wrong to right side of one Gothic arch, and one petal and centre fixed on its point. A firm catch hack to wrong side held it in place. Bud and stem, artistically arranged, the other petals were caught in the same manner, as naturally as cleftfingers. could manipulate. On one side, of the cosy, six or seven petals and double stems were affixed, but three sufficed for the others. _ Th© lining pieces were neatly joined with strong running-stitch. The outer pieces were lightly tacked in position over the lining, then, with dark green embroidered silk, and using a cross-stitch round all edges and open edge, the cosies were completed.