THE WENDY HUT

Taranaki Daily News, 21 December 1929, Page 8 (Supplement)

THE WENDY HUT

WENDY’S LITTLE DRESSMAKERS. You remember the appliqued cushion cover we described a few weeks ago, children? Well, we’ve had several requests for further articles decorated in the same way, so we’ll see about them this week, shall we? A sideboard runner comes first. You will need a piece of hessian, about thirteen inches wide and the length of the top of the sideboard. Fold over- the cut edges and bind them on the wrong side with tape, before you do anything else, as hessian frays very quickly. Now rule a line along each of the two short ends of the, runner about two inches up from the edge. Take a needleful of thick black wool and bring it up at the beginning of one line; then thread a needle with orange wool, bring this up about half an inch away from the first point, and sew the black wool down with the orange all along the line. This is called couching —remember? Diagram C explains, in case you’ve forgotten. When both ends ate worked like this, cut four circles of orange linen, one and a half inches across, four of lemon, and four of royal blue. Measure about five inches above the couched lines and tack the circles ’into position, as shown in the top sketch. There’ll be two circles of each colour along each line: first a lemon, then an orange, a blue, an orange, a blue, and finally a lemon. Tack each down, as shown in Diagram A; then, with matching wool in each case, buttonhole them on to the hessian, as shown in Diagram B. Give each “flower” a black centre, and work stems to within half an inch of the couched lines with jade green wool. Lazy daisy stitches in the same green wool—see Diagram D —between the stalks will suggest leaves. * . The chair back is a piece of hessian, fifteen inches wide and about twenty-four inches long. Turn in the raw edges as already described, and work a line of black and orange couching two inches from the front edge. Now cut a circle each of lemon, orange, and blue, about two inches ; and two smaller circles of orangd one and a half inches across. Applique the bigger ones in the centre as shown in the lower sketch, and put the little orange circles each side. Chainstitch stems and lazy daisy leaves in green wool complete the design. You can make a table runner like the sideboard runner and a sofa back like a chair back if you like. The sofa back will be twice as wide as the chair back, and will have twice the number of "flowers.” WENDY’S DRESSMAKER.