A CUSHION COVER.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19061, 4 July 1925, Page 6 (Supplement)

A CUSHION COVER.

Horo is a simple way of making a very effective cushion cover. Saxo blue net, darned with a deeper shade of blue and and gold, forms a very attractive colour scheme. Materials required are gyd. of blue curtain net 50in. wide, having a mesh of about five squares to the inch; lj'yd. of satin or a good sateen 27in. wide; 4yd. of silk cord; 1 cushion 25in. square; part of a hank of artificial silk in blue and the same amount in gold; one flat bodkin. Cut your net into two squares of 25in. Take olio piece and begin darning in blue at the right-hand bottom corner. Thread your bodkin with a length ol double silk and darn under and over each mesh, making a slanting line to the top of the left-hand corner, turn and darn buck to the bottom along the next line, picking up the mesh on a level with the mesh picked up before. Make six lines altogether in blue, then six lines in gold. Repeat from until the whole square is covered. Of course, if you prefer you can make straight stripes up and' down the net instead of the diagonal ones; but the former are more effective.

Press the darning on the, wrong side with a warm iron, then join to the plain piece of net, line with the satin, and stitch round three sides, leaving one side open, into which you put your cushion. Sew up the open end, and then stitch the cord all round, twisting it into a double loop at the corners. An equally simple method of making a table runner will he described next week.