A PILLOW TO PLEASE YOU.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 2340, 9 January 1926, Page 6

A PILLOW TO PLEASE YOU.

I have just made a cushion, and it is such a great success that X .think you would like a similar one. so I will describe ihy cushion in detail: On a big plain pillow of lustrous black taffetas, X have arranged a gold baske'L piled to overflowing with wonderfully coloured fruits and flowers—• amber and turqoise, emerald and amethyst, carnation and malachite green —in a riotous medley. The ‘basket’ is made from a pleae of coarsemeshed gold lace, six inches long, and four inches w r ido; a fifteen-inch length of heavy gold cord is the handle. Xi'irst X lightly appliqued the lace on to the pillow, curved the cord above from side to side attaching it with the tiniest of stitches in gold thread. Some o,f the flowers are old artificial marigolds, camellias and roses, left over from last season’s buttonholes. I cleaned up the soiled ones with benzine, and repainted those which were dull and faded with water colours; other blossoms I made from scraps of satin and gold ribbon. I sewed them Into the ‘basket’ almost anyhow; they seemed to group themselves naturally. And I mixed bright hue d fruits in with the flowers —or* onges, plums and grapes, all mads from scraps of gay silks padded tightly with cotton wool. Some of the leaves and petals were allowed to hang over the rim of the basket giving the whole a wonderfully natural look. When everything was In place, I added a few splashes of gold paint here and there as a finishing touch.