WENDY’S DRESSMAKERS

Taranaki Daily News, 2 August 1930, Page 8 (Supplement)

WENDY’S DRESSMAKERS

HOW TO MAKE A HAT BAND. Your “last year’e hat” will look wonJerfuliy fresh and new again if you make for it a pretty embroidered hathand, like the one we’ve designed for you to-day. It is made of wide cotton

feteraham ribbon. Choose ribbon about hree inches wide, in any colour you like, and buy a yard and a quarter. Find the middle of the ribbon, stick a pin there to mark it, and then put the band round your hat to see where at crosses at the back, so that you know how far to embroider along each side of the centre pin. Any bright coloured scraps of wool will do for the workpink, blue, yellow, orange, and so on, with green for leaves' and brown for e terns. As you see, the embroidery is carried out in the form of a garden flower border. A rose bush is worked in the centre of the band, and you must do this like diagram A The roses are little ciioles of pink wool stitches put close together at different angles, with green stitches in between to suggest leaves. Work a straight stem m brown outline stitch, adding a leaf or two each side. At either side of the rose bush, you might have a delphinium plant, worked like diagram B, in different shades of blue —just wee stitches arranged in a tai! spike on top of a green stem. Diagram C shows you how to do yellow sunflowers in buttonhole stitch, with satinstitch centres, and dia.gr,am D explains how you can suggest buds or smaller flowers. You van sketch the positions and shapes of the flowers in white chalk, before working them. When all is done to your satisfaction, press-the work under a dapip cloth. If you pin the band round your hat with tiny invisible safety pins, you can take it off and put it on another hat whenever you like. Next week we’il tell you now to make a pretty poctseti" to match the hat.* bund. > Wendy’s , Dressmaker.