WENDY’S DRESSMAKERS

Taranaki Daily News, 23 August 1930, Page 24 (Supplement)

WENDY’S DRESSMAKERS

A PRETTY TABLE*RUNNER. A Wendy Lady wants to make a #‘very specially nice” table runner for her mother, go to-day I will tell you about the beautiful one we have in the Hut sitting-room, and you can make one like it. You will want a piece of crash, about fifteen inches wide and long enough to go the length of the table, with ten inches over at each end. This

crash is sixpence the yard, fifteen inches wide, and has selvedges which will enable you to dispense with side hems. Make tiny hems along the top and bottom edges, and divide each edge

into seven ‘equal' parts. Rule a line along the cloth the height of one of these sevenths from the bottom, so that you have seven squares. Above these draw out five squares the same size; above these draw three squares, and on top there will be one, ae explained by the diagram. Work all these squares with running-stitch outlines in black jvool, treating both ends of (he runner in the earns way.

Cut some small circles of linen the size of pennies, using two colours—say orange and yellow. Applique these circles in alternate squares of the design, having blue, yellow, blue, yellow, along the lowest line of squares; above that have blue, yellow, blue; above that again, have blue, yellow; and top have A blue circle. Give these “flowers” Idack wool centres, buttonhole them round the ed<zes with contrasting colour-

ed wools, work a Jade green stem to each, and add green lazy-daisy leaves at the sides. The little diagram explains exactly how these flowers look when they’re finished. This design can be adapted to a cushion-cover if you prefer, and any colour scheme may, of course, be used. Wendv’n Dressmaker.