LEISURE-HOUR STITCHERIES.

Taranaki Daily News, 12 October 1929, Page 22 (Supplement)

LEISURE-HOUR STITCHERIES.

New examples of needlework for the leisure-hour are not only easy to execute, but:-,look delightful when finished. The designs are bought ready-stamped on to linen of pastel colourings, with part, of the patterning tinted in contrasting shades, so that charming results are soon obtained by the addition of a little silk or wool embroidery. One fascinating design that looks equally well on a chair-back, table-run-ner, or cushion-cover, consists of two charming child-figures in soft rose-col-oured dresses, with a garland of flowers between them. The figures- can be daintily outlined with appropriate silks, and the flowers worked in various bright shades with simple stitches. The entire design may be worked in two horirs, yet the finished effect will impression that treble the amount of time and trouble has been spent on it. AVise brown owls perched on black twigs, with a decoration of black pine needles and orange pine-cones, are to be obtained on a circular piece of linen, which may be turned into a fascinating sofa pillow, or a table centre, as fancy dictates. Touches of silk or wool embroidery are quickly applied and. the design is an extremely pleasant one to work. Those who prefer sewing on canvas or coarser linen may find any number of designs with the patterns stamped on. iir ha. lionising colours. One square cushiop cover is printed with an adorable garden seenCj a rioting herbaceous border showing in the foreground, a crazy-paved pathway leading to a blue-green yew hedge and archway, and hollyhocks peeping over the hedge beside a dovecote. Tall indigo poplars and a white-clouded blue sky complete the picture, which can soon be worked in tapestrv wools. —R.AL