WENDY’S DRESSMAKERS

Taranaki Daily News, 27 July 1929, Page 20

WENDY’S DRESSMAKERS

Ona Wendy Lady has asked for instructions for making wool flowers, and another wants a pretty new trimming for a hat she had last year. We thought it would be nice to combine the two requests this week, and answer them both at once. What could bo prettier than a wreath of gay wool flowers to cheer up a plain straw or felt hat, with posy of similar flowers to wear in your buttonhole? “We’ll start with the big daisies on the first hat, shall we? These are made of loops of yellow wool, sewn on to a linen button which serves as a foundation. First cover the button with a wee scrap of orange ribbon, then thread a big-eyed needle with yellow wool, and work a series of loops about an inch long

all round the foundation, as shown in diagram B. When you’ve gone all round the° button, the flower will be finished and should look like diagram A. When you have made enough daisies to wreathe your hat, sew them in position round the crown, and sew some green wool stitches directly on to the straw, hero and there, to suggest leaves. If you want to make a buttonhole of similar daisies, you must go over the under side of the foundations buttons with green wool to hide the stitches, and you can make the stems of wire, covered with the same green wool. Now for the other posy. To make each wee blossom, take a strand of green wool, about six inches long, and double it. Now thread a needle with wool in the colour you want the flower to be, and work four or five loops round the doubled end of the green wool, as shown in diagram !«.. Make a tiny centre to each flower with yellow wool, and it will look like diagram D. Tie up the blossoms daintily—you’ll want quite 30 to make a good bunch —and the posy is ready for stitching to the side of your hat, or pinning to your buttonhole. Mowers in shades of yellow, orange, and brown will look pretty on a beige hat; pink, blue, and mauve blossoms would be sweet for a grey hat —but, of course, you’ll use colours to suit your clothes. Diagram C shows what the finished bunch ought to look like. Don’t you just long to begin! c, Wendy’s Dressmaker.