TO INTEREST HOUSEWIVES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 95, 22 March 1939, Page 13

TO INTEREST HOUSEWIVES.

NEW COVERS EUR SOFA CIL.H.iJNS. | Sofa cushions arc continually needing new covers in order to keep them spick and span. Jt is a delight to be able to go to a store and pick out just what you want for this purpose. Jt is when the cushions are shabby i and the purse is low that tlie Jiome- ! maker lias to consider how to have j new covers at little or no cost. Let me suggest some successful ways. I \\ hat about that velvet dress that I has badly worn places? AYouldn’t the j good parts make a cover? One inI genious friend made a smart cover for 1 a soft cushion, and had enough left from flic frock to cover a large foot I stool besides. Tlie ensemble was very attractive. The piece bag supplied the goods for another top. Sapphire blue velvet was used for tlie main part. A wide strip of changeable gold and blue drapery fabric was used across tlie centre of tlie top. This material was strong, hut too light in weigiit to use without the firm backing of velvet. The lace box contributed very narrow gold lace which was used to edge the gold strip. And now a stunning cushion adorns the davenport. Narrow, fancy gimp could have been substituted for tlie gold metal lace and other combinations of materials could be used with equal success. One woman covered two pillows with the material from a black silk dress. Tlie dull side had been outside tiie gown. Tlie satin side was used for the outside on the covers. On these she appliqued the conventional willow pattern for the tree, and hill, and Chinese red for the boat on one pattern and tlie pagoda in tlie other with Chinese yellow for tiie rest, of the patchwork. These materials all fame from frocks, or flie piece bag. Tiie covers are indeed handsome.