CHECKERED TABLE LINEN

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21520, 17 June 1933, Page 6 (Supplement)

CHECKERED TABLE LINEN

DAINTY AND ORIGINAL A set of table linen checkered in a colour to match one's china is ver.v quickly and easily done, and is both effective and distinctive. All you do is to draw three threads at regular intervals both ways of your linen square. Slight calculations arp necessary. For instance, if you decide to make 2in. squares, then your mats should be in sizes of multiples, of two, remembering to allow just over a quarter of an inch extra, on all outside squares to mako a turning at the edge. Having drawn your threads, you proceed to thread a fine, long darner with three strands from a twist of twisted embroidery cotton, in a colour chosen ill happy contrast to your linen. Banana-yellow and Dutch-blue cotton are a happy combination. Now run this thread, taking and dropping about three threads at a time, all along the lines —this gives a delicate checked effect. Turn in your edges and tack neatly. Then with three strands of cotton, buttonhole the edges, working right over the turning and working three buttonhole stitches iuto one hole and then leaving a space of a quarter of an inch between them and the next, group of three. The effect is dainty, yet striking. To decorate, vou need no more than the merest, " twig " of a- somewhat conventional design, worked in sonic of the squares.