WENDY’S DRESSMAKERS

Taranaki Daily News, 25 July 1931, Page 20 (Supplement)

WENDY’S DRESSMAKERS

MAKING A WEDDING PRESENT. A Wendy girl lias asked me to suggest something she can make as a wedding present for her grown-up sister and I thought one of the nicest things would be an afternoon tea cloth, with four little tabic napkins to match. The set 1 have chosen is like the one Tink made for the Hut sitting-room, and it really is pretty. The cloth is made from one yard of 36-inch wide linen. Turn up and tack ait inch-wide hem all round, and be careful to mitre the corners neatly as you come to them. Go iver the tacking with running-stitches in blue or green embroidery thread, making each stitch about a quarter of an inch long, and leaving one-eighth of an inch between. The running stitches are to be on the right side of the cloth. When you have worked all round, put in another row immediately under the first, as shown in Diagram A. Now cut four big coloured flowers from a scrap of cretonne, and tack one

in each corner of the cloth. Let. the flowers be different kinds —you might have a red rose in one corner, a sunflower in another, a poppy in another, and a big pansy in the fourth. Button-hole-stitch each flower down with embroidery thread, as shown in Diagram B; sew on leaves cut from cretonne, and work in stems with satin-stitch. The flowers will look richer if you outline parts of them with thick embroidery threads in stem-stitch. The little table-napkins are cut from another yard of 36-inch wide material, divided equally into four, which gives you four nine-inch squares. Turn up half-inch hems on each, tack, and sew with coloured running-stitches, just like the big cloth. Then work a different cretonne flower in one corner of each, like those shown in the sketch. Wendy’s Dressmaker.