DAMAGED TOWELS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19947, 16 May 1928, Page 7

DAMAGED TOWELS.

HOW TO MAKE USE OF THEM.

However careful one may be, bath towels must occasionally meet with accidents in the way of burns, scorches and bad tears, states an exchange. Such b towel is generally reduced to the lowly position of a rubber, but actually, if only one end is affected, a most charming rough apron can be made from the other half. Such an apron is especially useful where there is a baby to bo bathed, as it is not nearly so cold and slippery as the linen apron and is more easily dried than one of flannel.

Should the towej have coloured threads running through the border, all that will bo needed to effect the transformation will bo a strip, about sin. wide and a yard and three-quarters long of any fast-coloured cotton material that matches the threads. It the border be plain, boiling embroidery cotton will also be needed for decoration. To make the apron the damaged part of the towel is cut off and the raw edge resulting is gathered slightly and put into a band. This is made of the cotton material turned in, doubled over and pressed, the long ends of the strip being left on each side for ties. A patch pocket is then added, made out of a spare piece of the unused half and bound with a scrap of the cotton material. The border is worked, if necessary, and the apron is complete.