WENDY’S DRESSMAKERS

Taranaki Daily News, 28 September 1929, Page 24 (Supplement)

WENDY’S DRESSMAKERS

1 expect you remember that we promised to give instructions for making a hair tidy this week. We’ve thought out two kinds—an amusing one and a decorative one —so yon can choose which you like. The pierrot tidy is very easy to make. A ping-pong ball forms Hie head, on which you must paint a‘funny little face and a black skull cap. Fix a frill of white ribbon underneath. (You'll find it quite easy to ficw it to the celluloid ball here and there.) Now cut a triangle of fairly stiff white cardboard, with .sides twelve inches long—diagram A. Fold this over to make a cone shape, like diagram B, and stitch neatly together down the back. Cut off the overlapping points, bind the top of the cone with' black ribbon, and sew the- pierrot’s head into position where shown in the drawing, Stitch a loop of white ribbon to each side io represent arms', and ecw two black ribbon loops U the point of the cone to suggest feet. Three black pom-poms down the front of the tidy, and a loop behind the head by which to bang it up, complete the little- affair. It will look nicer and keep clean longer if you cut a triangle of thin paper and slip it inside the cone; this

can be renewed as often as necessary. The second tidy is made from a quar-ter-pound size cocoa tin. Measure it, and cub two pieces of silk or cotton material about the same size. Sew up one piece and fit it inside the tin, making a- neat little hem at the lower edge. Then sew up the sides of the. outer piece, turn it right side out, and slip it over the tin. This cover should be cut throe inches longer than the depth of the tin. Turn in the raw edges at the top and scam it to the lining; then run a gathering thread round the lower edge, pull up over the bottom o? the tin, find fasten off. Make some coloured «silk ■'‘fruits” out of ribbon scraps stuffed with cotton wool, and stitch them round the top of the tidy, with green ribbon leaves in between. Sew some similar fruits to the ends of narrow ribbons, and fasten these to the bottom of the tidy. Fix a ribbon loop to the top, and this tidy is finished tool Line it with white paper as before. —Wendy’? Dressmaker.