WENDY’S DRESSMAKERS

Taranaki Daily News, 27 May 1933, Page 9 (Supplement)

WENDY’S DRESSMAKERS

A BAG LIKE A BUCKET. Here's a nice thing for you to make, children—a large bucket-shaped bag, which mother can use as shopping-basket or knitting-bag. . It is made from a strip of hessian, twenty-seven inches long, and twelve inches deep, for the sides of the bag; two circles of stout cardboard, each eight inches across; and two circles of hessian, ten inches across, for the bottom. Diagram D shows you the side-piece, of hessian and the bottom circle. Cover each cardboard circle with a piece cf hessian by running a gathering-thread all round one hessian circle, putting one of the cardboard circles in the middle, and pulling the thread up tight, so that the edges come over and grip the card. Do the same with the other card, and then stitch them together with the raw edges inside. Now take ’the long strip of hessian and turn in the raw edges at top and bottom. Stitch a length of orange braid along at each edge—you can do it in blanket-stitch with black wool —as you see in diagram A. The rest of the strip is trimmed with gay flowers cut from

coloured felt, stitched in place with different coloured wools. Diagrams B and C show you two ways of doing this. Pieces of felt from an old hat will make the “flowers” which should be about two inches across. Group them nicely as they are done in the sketch and add bright green fishbone-stitch leaves between them. Now join your hessian strip along the two stort sides, make a lining from a strip of orange casement cloth, twentyseven inches long and twelve inches deep, and slip-stitch this inside the bag. Sew to the bottom as invisibly as possible, then make a handle from a doubled strip of orange braid. Sew that to the top of the bag so that it looks like the upper sketch. And the bag is finished. Wendy’s Dressmaker.