AN UNCOMMON BEDSPREAD

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21640, 4 November 1933, Page 6 (Supplement)

AN UNCOMMON BEDSPREAD

DESIGN IN SQUARES

Any woman fond of needlework would enjoy making this attractive embroidered linen bedspread for her own room or for the guest room. Carriedjout in a pastel-coloured linen, such as primrose, Nile green or palest lavender, Tvith stitcheries of rich pink, soft blue and jade, the finished coverlet would fit into many different colour schemes. And it, is by no means as formidable an undertaking to make a bedspread as it appears, for this one is composed of separate squares of linen which can each be finished and then joined together afterwards. The individual embroidered squares do not fake long to do and bits of work of this description are nice to have on hand for picking up in odd moments of leisure.

The bedspread is composed of thirty squares of linen, each one 16in. across, and these give you a cover to fit an ordinary single bed. There are fifteen plain squares and fifteen embroidered ones, and, as you can see, they are joined together alternately to make a checker-board pattern.

Here is a list of necessary materials: Seven yards of 36in. wido dress linen in natural or your favourite pastel colour and some skeins* of silk of floss in different colours.

The first thing to do is to cut up tho linen into ](3in. squares. Measure them off and pull out threads so as to be sure to get the squares cut true. Each square has a sin. deep hem tacked all round, so that it will measure loin, across, and these squares are all joined together with faggotting afterwards, using deep rose thread for the purpose. Work all the stems in black stemstitch; the flowers are centred with black satin-stitch. Their petals are worked in long and short stitch. The central flower has an inner ring of deep rose and an outer one of light rose. There is a border of deep blue featherstitching all round the outside edge, and a row of light jade ,stroke-stitches round the inner deep rose stitching. The design, colours used and stitches for the flowers may, however, be varied according to taste and requirements.